Lifebit Biotech

Lifebit Biotech Ltd is a London-founded (2017) health-data infrastructure company that builds federated Trusted Research Environments (TREs) for population-scale biomedical research and sovereign health AI. Rather than centralising sensitive patient data, Lifebit sends compute to the data: analyses execute inside each participating custodian's own infrastructure and every proposed output passes through an automated airlock (the "sixth safe") controlled by the data custodian rather than the vendor. The commercial platform, CloudOS, orchestrates Nextflow and WDL/Cromwell pipelines, interactive analysis sessions, projects, job queues and federated datasets, and exposes a REST API at https://cloudos.lifebit.ai/api (v1/v2/v3) authenticated with an apikey header. Lifebit publishes a first-party open-source Python client and command line interface, cloudos-cli, plus a GitHub Action wrapper. Product surface includes the federated TRE, Airlock Tower output disclosure control, an agentic federated TRE, AI-automated OMOP CDM v5.4 harmonisation, federated learning, a trusted data lakehouse and a trusted data marketplace. Publicly disclosed deployments include Genomics England, the US NIH National Library of Medicine, CanPath, Singapore Synapxe, Boehringer Ingelheim, Flatiron Health and 23andMe.

Lifebit Biotech is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Health, Genomics, Bioinformatics, and Federated Learning.

Lifebit Biotech’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, pricing, YouTube channel, and 30 more developer resources.

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33.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 6/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 100/100 alive open core · GPL-3.0 Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API

Company Health Genomics Bioinformatics Federated LearningTrusted Research EnvironmentData Governance Life Sciences Sovereign AI OMOP Workflow Orchestration

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Composite quality — 33.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 10.7 / 15

Access Clarity 6.5 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.8 / 10

Contract Governance 0.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.0 / 15

Open Source Surface 2.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 6/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Contract Governance scores 0.0 — up to +12.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 43.4 — up to +11.3 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
UK G-Cloud Suppliers (UK public-sector cloud procurement)	standard	34.5	-	-
GA4GH Genomics Standards (htsget, DRS, TES, WES, Beacon, Passports)	standard	34.5	-	-

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OMOP CDM

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Lifebit CloudOS API

The REST API behind the Lifebit Platform (CloudOS): manage workspace projects, job queues, workflows/pipelines, Nextflow and Cromwell/WDL job submission and monitoring, interact...

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Lifebit Biotech Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Lifebit Biotech Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Lifebit Biotech Trust Center

SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 9001, FedRAMP, Cyber Essentials Plus, HIPAA, GDPR, NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT), G-Cloud 13, EHDEN, HITRUST CSF v11

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

Compliance

Authentication

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

Releases

Support

ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

Pricing

Pricing

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 5

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

Website

Blog

Twitter

LinkedIn

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CaseStudies

Publications

WhitePapers

Glossary

Source (apis.yml)

aid: lifebit-biotech
name: Lifebit Biotech
description: 'Lifebit Biotech Ltd is a London-founded (2017) health-data infrastructure company that builds federated Trusted
  Research Environments (TREs) for population-scale biomedical research and sovereign health AI. Rather than centralising
  sensitive patient data, Lifebit sends compute to the data: analyses execute inside each participating custodian''s own infrastructure
  and every proposed output passes through an automated airlock (the "sixth safe") controlled by the data custodian rather
  than the vendor. The commercial platform, CloudOS, orchestrates Nextflow and WDL/Cromwell pipelines, interactive analysis
  sessions, projects, job queues and federated datasets, and exposes a REST API at https://cloudos.lifebit.ai/api (v1/v2/v3)
  authenticated with an apikey header. Lifebit publishes a first-party open-source Python client and command line interface,
  cloudos-cli, plus a GitHub Action wrapper. Product surface includes the federated TRE, Airlock Tower output disclosure control,
  an agentic federated TRE, AI-automated OMOP CDM v5.4 harmonisation, federated learning, a trusted data lakehouse and a trusted
  data marketplace. Publicly disclosed deployments include Genomics England, the US NIH National Library of Medicine, CanPath,
  Singapore Synapxe, Boehringer Ingelheim, Flatiron Health and 23andMe.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lifebit-biotech/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: open-core
  license: GPL-3.0
  open_source: true
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://lifebit.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/favicon.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- techstars
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Health
- Genomics
- Bioinformatics
- Federated Learning
- Trusted Research Environment
- Data Governance
- Life Sciences
- Sovereign AI
- OMOP
- Workflow Orchestration
apis:
- aid: lifebit-biotech:cloudos-api
  name: Lifebit CloudOS API
  description: 'The REST API behind the Lifebit Platform (CloudOS): manage workspace projects, job queues, workflows/pipelines,
    Nextflow and Cromwell/WDL job submission and monitoring, interactive analysis sessions, and datasets/files across S3 and
    Azure Blob storage. Requests are scoped to a workspace with a teamId query parameter and authenticated with an apikey
    request header. Version prefixes /api/v1, /api/v2 and /api/v3 are in concurrent use. Lifebit does not publish an OpenAPI
    description; the operation surface catalogued here was derived from the first-party open-source client, cloudos-cli.'
  humanURL: https://lifebit-ai.github.io/cloudos-cli/
  baseURL: https://cloudos.lifebit.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Genomics
  - Workflow Orchestration
  - Bioinformatics
  - Job
  - Datasets
  tags_raw:
  - Genomics
  - Workflow Orchestration
  - Bioinformatics
  - Jobs
  - Datasets
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/lifebit-biotech-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/lifebit-biotech-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/lifebit-biotech-problem-types.yml
  - type: CLI
    url: cli/lifebit-biotech-cli.yml
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/lifebit-ai/cloudos-cli
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- url: https://lifebit.ai/feed/
  type: BlogRSS
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/lifebit-ai/cloudos-cli/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/lifebit-ai/cloudos-cli/releases
- type: License
  name: GPL-3.0
  url: https://github.com/lifebit-ai/cloudos-cli/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: Website
  url: https://lifebit.ai/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://lifebit-ai.github.io/cloudos-cli/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://lifebit-ai.github.io/cloudos-cli/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://lifebit-ai.github.io/cloudos-cli/cli.html
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://lifebit-ai.github.io/cloudos-cli/getting_started.html
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/lifebit-ai
- type: Blog
  url: https://lifebit.ai/blog/
- type: Support
  url: https://lifebit.ai/contact-us/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://lifebit.ai/pricing/
- type: Login
  url: https://cloudos.lifebit.ai/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://lifebit.ai/privacy-policy/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/lifebit-biotech-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://lifebit.ai/trust-center/
- type: CaseStudies
  url: https://lifebit.ai/case-studies/
- type: Publications
  url: https://lifebit.ai/publications/
- type: WhitePapers
  url: https://lifebit.ai/white-papers/
- type: Glossary
  url: https://lifebit.ai/glossary/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/lifebitAI
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lifebit-ai/
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZD4p-fsOh6AUgRvMl1RNfQ
- type: Packages
  url: packages/lifebit-biotech-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/lifebit-biotech-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/lifebit-biotech-cli.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/lifebit-biotech-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/lifebit-biotech-well-known.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/lifebit-biotech-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/lifebit-biotech-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/lifebit-biotech-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/lifebit-biotech-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/lifebit-biotech-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/lifebit-biotech-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/lifebit-biotech-changelog.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lifebit-biotech-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Lifebit Biotech API — frequently asked questions

Does Lifebit Biotech have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Lifebit Biotech, including Lifebit CloudOS API.

How do I authenticate with the Lifebit Biotech API?

Lifebit Biotech uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Lifebit Biotech Authentication.

Is the Lifebit Biotech API ready for AI agents?

Lifebit Biotech has a Kin Score of 33.1 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 6.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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