Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) develops and sells portable real-time DNA and RNA sequencing devices, consumables, and analysis software. Their platform enables researchers to sequence long reads directly from biological samples, supporting applications from genomics and transcriptomics to clinical diagnostics and environmental monitoring. ONT’s technology combines nanopore hardware, flow cells, library preparation kits, and cloud‑based informatics to deliver fast, scalable sequencing solutions worldwide.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Genomes API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Company, Sequencing, Genomics, Bioinformatics, and Diagnostics.

The Oxford Nanopore Technologies catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies’ developer surface includes support, signup flow, documentation, engineering blog, and 16 more developer resources.

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19.9/100 emerging ▼ -6.8 Agent 33/100 agent ready Heartbeat 55/100 slowing Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

2 APIs

Company Sequencing Genomics Bioinformatics Diagnostics

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 19.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 2.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 17

Access Clarity 2.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 33/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

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

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
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
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)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 10.7 — up to +22.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 15.5 — up to +16.9 composite points
Access Clarity scores 17.1 — up to +16.6 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

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.

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

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

Oxford Nanopore API

API reference for Oxford Nanopore Technologies services

Oxford Nanopore Technologies Genomes API

The Genomes API from Oxford Nanopore Technologies — 1 operation(s) for genomes.

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies API Rules

8 rules · 6 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

Oxford Nanopore Technologies Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Oxford Nanopore Technologies Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

Spectral

Conformance

Conformance

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security

Security

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Newsroom

Newsroom

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: oxford-nanopore-technologies
name: Oxford Nanopore Technologies
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: unreadable
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://nanoporetech.com/api/assets/f/196663/300x69/3d970cc105/ont-logo-black.svg
description: Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) develops and sells portable real-time DNA and RNA sequencing devices, consumables,
  and analysis software. Their platform enables researchers to sequence long reads directly from biological samples, supporting
  applications from genomics and transcriptomics to clinical diagnostics and environmental monitoring. ONT’s technology combines
  nanopore hardware, flow cells, library preparation kits, and cloud‑based informatics to deliver fast, scalable sequencing
  solutions worldwide.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/oxford-nanopore-technologies/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:tag-qc
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-14 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-14'
modified: '2026-10-14'
tags:
- Company
- Sequencing
- Genomics
- Bioinformatics
- Diagnostics
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/oxford-nanopore-technologies-rules.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://nanoporetech.com/products/analyse/vulnerability-disclosure-guidance
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/oxford-nanopore-technologies-conformance.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/oxford-nanopore-technologies-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/oxford-nanopore-technologies-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/oxford-nanopore-technologies-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/oxford-nanopore-technologies-vendors.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/oxford-nanopore-technologies-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/oxford-nanopore-technologies-packages.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://nanoporetech.com/about/terms-conditions-policies
- type: Support
  url: https://nanoporetech.com/support
- type: SignUp
  url: https://register.nanoporetech.com/telomere-to-telomere-bundle
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://nanoporetech.com/about/privacy-policy
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://nanoporetech.com/news
- type: Documentation
  url: https://nanoporetech.com/documentation/results?category=application-workflows
- type: Blog
  url: https://nanoporetech.com/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/nanoporetech
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/oxford-nanopore-technologies-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/oxford-nanopore-technologies-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://nanoporetech.com
apis:
- name: Oxford Nanopore API
  description: API reference for Oxford Nanopore Technologies services
  humanURL: https://api.nanoporetech.com/api-docs
  aid: oxford-nanopore-technologies:oxford-nanopore-api
- aid: oxford-nanopore-technologies:oxford-nanopore-technologies-genomes-api
  name: Oxford Nanopore Technologies Genomes API
  description: The Genomes API from Oxford Nanopore Technologies — 1 operation(s) for genomes.
  humanURL: https://api.nanoporetech.com/api-docs
  baseURL: https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  tags:
  - Genomes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/oxford-nanopore-technologies-genomes-api-openapi.yml
x-coverage:
  state: unreadable
  reason: js-rendered-docs
  detail: API documentation at https://api.nanoporetech.com/api-docs returns HTML without a machine‑readable spec.
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.nanoporetech.com/api-docs
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-10-14'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-14'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 14
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

Oxford Nanopore Technologies API — frequently asked questions

Does Oxford Nanopore Technologies have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Oxford Nanopore Technologies, including Oxford Nanopore API and Oxford Nanopore Technologies Genomes API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Oxford Nanopore Technologies API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Oxford Nanopore Technologies, each linked for download from this page.

Is the Oxford Nanopore Technologies API ready for AI agents?

Oxford Nanopore Technologies has a Kin Score of 19.9 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 32.5 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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