Scispot

Scispot is a cloud-native laboratory data platform and operating system for modern life science labs. It provides an API-first architecture combining Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) and Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) capabilities with over 250 pre-built instrument connectors and 7,000+ application integrations via its GLUE layer. Labs use Scispot to centralize and activate their data, automate experiment workflows, manage samples, sequences, and chemical structures programmatically, and integrate with clinical data standards including HL7 FHIR, HL7 v2, and ASTM protocols.

Scispot publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including ELN API, Labsheets API, Manifests API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Laboratory, Life Sciences, LIMS, ELN, and Biotechnology.

The Scispot catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Scispot’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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34.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate Full breakdown ↓
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Laboratory Life Sciences LIMS ELN Biotechnology API-First Scientific Data Healthcare

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Composite quality — 34.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 17

Access Clarity 1.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11

Contract Governance 2.8 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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 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

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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
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
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 33.3 — up to +13.3 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 7.9 — up to +12.0 composite points

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APIs 5

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

Scispot ELN API

Electronic Lab Notebook protocols and experimental records

Scispot Labsheets API

LIMS-style structured data tables for registries, sample tracking, and assay data

Scispot Manifests API

Physical container management including plates, boxes, and racks

Scispot Samples API

Sample lifecycle management including barcoding and metadata

Scispot Sequences API

Biological sequence management for DNA, RNA, and protein sequences

Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Scispot ELN API

OPEN COLLECTION

Scispot ELN Labsheets API

OPEN COLLECTION

Scispot ELN Manifests API

OPEN COLLECTION

Scispot ELN Samples API

OPEN COLLECTION

Scispot ELN Sequences API

OPEN COLLECTION

Scispot API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Scispot Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Scispot Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Scispot Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Scispot Context

52 classes · 2 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Scispot — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Scispot API Rules

13 rules · 2 errors 9 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Scispot Labsheet

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Scispot Biological Sequence

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Scispot Labsheet Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Scispot Add Labsheet Row Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Scispot List Labsheets Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Scispot Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Scispot Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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Scispot Agentic Access

18 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: scispot
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/scispot.png
name: Scispot
description: Scispot is a cloud-native laboratory data platform and operating system for modern life science labs. It provides
  an API-first architecture combining Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) and Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) capabilities
  with over 250 pre-built instrument connectors and 7,000+ application integrations via its GLUE layer. Labs use Scispot to
  centralize and activate their data, automate experiment workflows, manage samples, sequences, and chemical structures programmatically,
  and integrate with clinical data standards including HL7 FHIR, HL7 v2, and ASTM protocols.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-02'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-docs-platform: mintlify
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Laboratory
- Life Sciences
- LIMS
- ELN
- Biotechnology
- API-First
- Scientific Data
- Healthcare
tags_raw:
- Laboratory
- Life Science
- LIMS
- ELN
- Biotech
- API First
- Scientific Data
- Healthcare
apis:
- aid: scispot:scispot-eln-api
  name: Scispot ELN API
  description: Electronic Lab Notebook protocols and experimental records
  humanURL: https://www.scispot.com/
  baseURL: https://api.scispot.com/v1
  tags:
  - ELN
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/scispot-eln-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.scispot.com/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://www.scispot.com/compbio
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/rules/scispot-rules.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/json-schema/scispot-labsheet-schema.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/json-ld/scispot-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/scispot-vocabulary.yml
- aid: scispot:scispot-labsheets-api
  name: Scispot Labsheets API
  description: LIMS-style structured data tables for registries, sample tracking, and assay data
  humanURL: https://www.scispot.com/
  baseURL: https://api.scispot.com/v1
  tags:
  - Labsheets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/scispot-labsheets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.scispot.com/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://www.scispot.com/compbio
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/rules/scispot-rules.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/json-schema/scispot-labsheet-schema.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/json-ld/scispot-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/scispot-vocabulary.yml
- aid: scispot:scispot-manifests-api
  name: Scispot Manifests API
  description: Physical container management including plates, boxes, and racks
  humanURL: https://www.scispot.com/
  baseURL: https://api.scispot.com/v1
  tags:
  - Manifests
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/scispot-manifests-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.scispot.com/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://www.scispot.com/compbio
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/rules/scispot-rules.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/json-schema/scispot-labsheet-schema.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/json-ld/scispot-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/scispot-vocabulary.yml
- aid: scispot:scispot-samples-api
  name: Scispot Samples API
  description: Sample lifecycle management including barcoding and metadata
  humanURL: https://www.scispot.com/
  baseURL: https://api.scispot.com/v1
  tags:
  - Samples
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/scispot-samples-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.scispot.com/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://www.scispot.com/compbio
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/rules/scispot-rules.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/json-schema/scispot-labsheet-schema.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/json-ld/scispot-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/scispot-vocabulary.yml
- aid: scispot:scispot-sequences-api
  name: Scispot Sequences API
  description: Biological sequence management for DNA, RNA, and protein sequences
  humanURL: https://www.scispot.com/
  baseURL: https://api.scispot.com/v1
  tags:
  - Sequences
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/scispot-sequences-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.scispot.com/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://www.scispot.com/compbio
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/rules/scispot-rules.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/json-schema/scispot-labsheet-schema.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/json-ld/scispot-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/scispot/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/scispot-vocabulary.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/scispot-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/scispot-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/scispot-finops.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/scispot-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/scispot-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/scispot-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scispot
- type: Website
  url: https://www.scispot.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.scispot.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.scispot.com/compbio
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.scispot.com/integrations
- url: https://www.scispot.com/blog
  type: Blog
integrations:
- name: labOSIcons
- name: glue navigation
- name: LIMS navigation
- name: LIS navigation
- name: QMS Navigation
- name: SDMS Navigation
- name: labflows navigation
- name: labsheets navigation
- name: labspace navigation
- name: Computational Toolkit Navigation
- name: Connectors and Agents Navigation
- name: Workflow Automation Navigation
- name: Inventory Automation Navigation
- name: Startup Navigation
- name: Scaleup Navigation
- name: Enterprise Navigation
- name: Resources Navigation
- name: Company Navigation
- name: Alt ELN Evaluation Tool
- name: glpVendor Navigation
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Scispot API — frequently asked questions

Does Scispot have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Scispot, including Scispot ELN API, Scispot Labsheets API and Scispot Manifests API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Scispot API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Scispot, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Scispot API?

Scispot uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Scispot Authentication.

How much does the Scispot API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Scispot, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing Plans on this page.

Is the Scispot API ready for AI agents?

Scispot has a Kin Score of 34.0 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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