PepBank · Schema

UnifiedSearch

One query across peptides, checked findings, stored papers and trials. Each list shows the top results only.

PeptidesResearchDatabaseBiotechnologyFree

Properties

Name Type Description
credit object
record_type string
query string
data_seq integer
peptides array
findings array
publications array
trials array
counts object Exact numbers of checked findings, stored papers and trials that contain the search words, under the same filters as the lists. trials counts trials that test a peptide (role tests); other registry en
registry_other object Registry entries that match the search and name a peptide without testing it (it is only a measured level, an eligibility term or a mention in the text). Not trials of the peptide. Counted apart from
lists object How each list is ordered. "ranked" = top of a hybrid ranking (full-text plus semantic similarity); ranked_pool is the length of that ranking (at most 400) and is NOT a total of matches, so a client sa
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JSON Schema

pepbank-io-unified-search-schema.json Raw ↑
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  "$id": "https://artifacts.apis.io/pepbank-io/json-schema/pepbank-io-unified-search-schema.json",
  "title": "UnifiedSearch",
  "description": "One query across peptides, checked findings, stored papers and trials. Each list shows the top results only.",
  "x-generated": "2026-11-06",
  "x-method": "derived",
  "x-generator": "derive-json-schema.py",
  "x-source": "openapi/pepbank-io-openapi.json#/components/schemas/UnifiedSearch",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "credit": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "text": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "Data from PepBank"
          ]
        },
        "line": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Credit sentence. Copy it as written."
        },
        "url": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "uri",
          "description": "PepBank page for this result. The home page applies when no single page fits."
        },
        "license_url": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
          ]
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "text",
        "url",
        "license_url"
      ]
    },
    "record_type": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "unified_search"
      ]
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "data_seq": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "peptides": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "id": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "slug": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "name": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "kind": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "category": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "featured": {
            "type": "boolean"
          },
          "one_liner": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "sequence": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "length": {
            "type": [
              "integer",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "aliases": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "regulatory_status": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "A sort key, never an answer: it does not say where. Quote approval instead."
          },
          "approval": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Approval status in words, with the places: for example \"Approved in the US and EU (Ozempic, 2017)\". Quote it as written; never write only the word approved."
          },
          "highest_phase": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "stats": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "publications": {
                "type": "integer"
              },
              "publications_checked": {
                "type": "integer",
                "description": "In-scope linked papers with extraction_status extracted, with or without findings."
              },
              "findings": {
                "type": "integer"
              },
              "by_class": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                  "human": {
                    "type": "object",
                    "properties": {
                      "publications": {
                        "type": "integer"
                      },
                      "findings": {
                        "type": "integer"
                      }
                    },
                    "required": [
                      "publications",
                      "findings"
                    ]
                  },
                  "animal": {
                    "type": "object",
                    "properties": {
                      "publications": {
                        "type": "integer"
                      },
                      "findings": {
                        "type": "integer"
                      }
                    },
                    "required": [
                      "publications",
                      "findings"
                    ]
                  },
                  "laboratory": {
                    "type": "object",
                    "properties": {
                      "publications": {
                        "type": "integer"
                      },
                      "findings": {
                        "type": "integer"
                      }
                    },
                    "required": [
                      "publications",
                      "findings"
                    ]
                  },
                  "predicted": {
                    "type": "object",
                    "properties": {
                      "publications": {
                        "type": "integer"
                      },
                      "findings": {
                        "type": "integer"
                      }
                    },
                    "required": [
                      "publications",
                      "findings"
                    ]
                  }
                },
                "required": [
                  "human",
                  "animal",
                  "laboratory",
                  "predicted"
                ]
              },
              "trials": {
                "type": "integer",
                "description": "Registered trials that test the peptide (role tests: it is among the interventions). Registry entries that only measure or mention it are in trials_other."
              },
              "trials_active": {
                "type": "integer",
                "description": "Trials that test the peptide and are recruiting, not yet recruiting, active or enrolling by invitation."
              },
              "trials_other": {
                "type": "integer",
                "description": "Registry entries that name the peptide but do not test it: it is only a measured level or an eligibility term (measures), or named in the text (mentions). They are not trials of the peptide. Say \"<n> more trial records measure or name it but do not test it\"."
              },
              "latest_publication": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "retracted_publications": {
                "type": "integer"
              },
              "out_of_scope": {
                "type": "integer",
                "description": "Stored papers that are out of scope for this peptide by a scope policy (for example oxytocin_childbirth_v1). PepBank does not check them, and they are not part of any \"not checked yet\" count. publications still counts every stored paper."
              },
              "evidence_level": {
                "type": "string",
                "enum": [
                  "human_rct",
                  "human_other",
                  "animal",
                  "laboratory",
                  "predicted",
                  "none"
                ],
                "description": "From checked findings of studies that gave the peptide only: human_rct, human_other, animal, laboratory, predicted or none. A registered trial, a trial phase or an approval never raises it."
              },
              "registry_level": {
                "type": "string",
                "enum": [
                  "approved",
                  "phase_4",
                  "phase_3",
                  "phase_2",
                  "phase_1",
                  "registered",
                  "none"
                ],
                "description": "From the registered trials that test the peptide and the curated development phase: approved (somewhere, for some use), phase_4, phase_3, phase_2, phase_1, registered or none. It says nothing about results. Never show approved as a bare Approved: use the regulatory block."
              },
              "human_rct_findings": {
                "type": "integer",
                "description": "Checked findings from randomized controlled trials in people, from studies that gave the peptide. Basis of the evidence level human_rct."
              },
              "trials_top_phase": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ],
                "enum": [
                  "phase_4",
                  "phase_3",
                  "phase_2",
                  "phase_1",
                  null
                ],
                "description": "Highest phase among the registered trials that test the peptide. Null when none has a phase. Early phase 1 counts as phase_1."
              },
              "endogenous_findings": {
                "type": "integer",
                "description": "Checked findings that measure the body's own peptide. They are not counted in findings or by_class."
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "publications",
              "findings",
              "by_class",
              "trials",
              "trials_active",
              "latest_publication",
              "retracted_publications",
              "evidence_level"
            ],
            "additionalProperties": {}
          },
          "match": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "typed_as": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "description": "Words of the query that are near names of this peptide (typing errors found by edit distance). A guess: show the matched name."
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "id",
          "slug",
          "name",
          "kind",
          "category",
          "featured",
          "one_liner",
          "sequence",
          "length",
          "aliases",
          "regulatory_status",
          "highest_phase",
          "stats",
          "match"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": {}
      }
    },
    "findings": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "finding": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "record_type": {
                "type": "string",
                "enum": [
                  "finding"
                ]
              },
              "finding_id": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "publication_id": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "peptide": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                  "peptide_id": {
                    "type": [
                      "string",
                      "null"
                    ]
                  }
                },
                "required": [
                  "peptide_id"
                ],
                "additionalProperties": {}
              },
              "evidence_class": {
                "type": "string",
                "enum": [
                  "human",
                  "animal",
                  "laboratory",
                  "predicted"
                ],
                "description": "Evidence class: human, animal, laboratory or predicted."
              },
              "evidence_detail": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                  "design": {
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                },
                "required": [
                  "design"
                ],
                "additionalProperties": {}
              },
              "claim": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                  "claim_type": {
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "outcome": {
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "direction": {
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "statement": {
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "statement_plain": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "Plain-language restatement for non-specialists (v0.3). It adds no facts."
                  },
                  "outcome_group": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "Normalized outcome group, for example Wound healing (v0.3)."
                  },
                  "body_system": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "Body system, for example Musculoskeletal (v0.3)."
                  },
                  "peptide_role": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "enum": [
                      "administered",
                      "endogenous_level",
                      "other"
                    ],
                    "description": "Role of the peptide in the study (extraction prompt v0.4). Only administered findings are evidence about taking the peptide. endogenous_level findings measure the body's own peptide."
                  }
                },
                "additionalProperties": {}
              },
              "measurements": {
                "type": "array",
                "items": {
                  "type": "object",
                  "properties": {},
                  "additionalProperties": {}
                }
              },
              "intervention": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {},
                "additionalProperties": {}
              },
              "source_passages": {
                "type": "array",
                "items": {
                  "type": "object",
                  "properties": {
                    "passage_id": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "role": {
                      "type": "string"
                    }
                  },
                  "required": [
                    "passage_id",
                    "role"
                  ],
                  "additionalProperties": {}
                }
              },
              "validation": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                  "status": {
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                },
                "required": [
                  "status"
                ],
                "additionalProperties": {}
              },
              "source_status": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "meta": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                  "version": {
                    "type": "integer"
                  },
                  "valid_from_seq": {
                    "type": "integer"
                  },
                  "valid_to_seq": {
                    "type": [
                      "integer",
                      "null"
                    ]
                  },
                  "created_at": {
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "record_hash": {
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                },
                "required": [
                  "version",
                  "valid_from_seq",
                  "valid_to_seq",
                  "created_at",
                  "record_hash"
                ],
                "additionalProperties": {}
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "record_type",
              "finding_id",
              "publication_id",
              "evidence_class"
            ],
            "additionalProperties": {},
            "description": "One claim from one source, with the source sentences that support it."
          },
          "publication": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "id": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "pmid": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "pmcid": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "doi": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "title": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "journal": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "year": {
                "type": [
                  "integer",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "pub_date": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "design_hint": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ],
                "description": "PubMed publication-type tag of the paper (for example rct or review), not checked. It is the label of the journal record, not a finding. For the design, species and peptide role of the checked findings, read profile."
              },
              "status": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "is_open_access": {
                "type": "boolean"
              },
              "license": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "oa_pdf_url": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "oa_landing_url": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "cited_by_count": {
                "type": "integer"
              },
              "first_author": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "extraction_status": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "id",
              "pmid",
              "pmcid",
              "doi",
              "title",
              "journal",
              "year",
              "pub_date",
              "design_hint",
              "status",
              "is_open_access",
              "license",
              "oa_pdf_url",
              "oa_landing_url",
              "cited_by_count",
              "first_author",
              "extraction_status"
            ],
            "additionalProperties": {}
          },
          "passages": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "passage_id": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "role": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "section": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "text": {
                  "type": [
                    "string",
                    "null"
                  ],
                  "description": "Source sentence. Null when the license does not allow the text (see withheld)."
                },
                "withheld": {
                  "type": [
                    "string",
                    "null"
                  ]
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "passage_id",
                "role",
                "section",
                "text",
                "withheld"
              ]
            }
          },
          "peptide": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "id": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "slug": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "name": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "id",
              "slug",
              "name"
            ]
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "finding",
          "publication",
          "passages",
          "peptide"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": {}
      }
    },
    "publications": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "id": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "pmid": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "pmcid": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "doi": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "title": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "journal": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "year": {
            "type": [
              "integer",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "pub_date": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "design_hint": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "PubMed publication-type tag of the paper (for example rct or review), not checked. It is the label of the journal record, not a finding. For the design, species and peptide role of the checked findings, read profile."
          },
          "status": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "is_open_access": {
            "type": "boolean"
          },
          "license": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "oa_pdf_url": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "oa_landing_url": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "cited_by_count": {
            "type": "integer"
          },
          "first_author": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "extraction_status": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "finding_count": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "id",
          "pmid",
          "pmcid",
          "doi",
          "title",
          "journal",
          "year",
          "pub_date",
          "design_hint",
          "status",
          "is_open_access",
          "license",
          "oa_pdf_url",
          "oa_landing_url",
          "cited_by_count",
          "first_author",
          "extraction_status",
          "finding_count"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": {}
      }
    },
    "trials": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "id": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "nct": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "title": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "acronym": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "status": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "phases": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "study_type": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "enrollment": {
            "type": [
              "integer",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "start_date": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "primary_completion_date": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "completion_date": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "start_date_type": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "enum": [
              "actual",
              "estimated",
              null
            ],
            "description": "The registry's type for this date. \"estimated\" is a plan, not a fact: a completion date of type estimated has not happened. Null when the registry gives no type."
          },
          "primary_completion_date_type": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "enum": [
              "actual",
              "estimated",
              null
            ],
            "description": "The registry's type for this date. \"estimated\" is a plan, not a fact: a completion date of type estimated has not happened. Null when the registry gives no type."
          },
          "completion_date_type": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "enum": [
              "actual",
              "estimated",
              null
            ],
            "description": "The registry's type for this date. \"estimated\" is a plan, not a fact: a completion date of type estimated has not happened. Null when the registry gives no type."
          },
          "sponsor": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "conditions": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "has_results": {
            "type": "boolean"
          },
          "last_update": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "peptides": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "id": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "slug": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "name": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "role": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "enum": [
                    "tests",
                    "measures",
                    "mentions"
                  ],
                  "description": "How the trial relates to this peptide: tests, measures or mentions. Only tests is a trial of the peptide."
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "id",
                "slug",
                "name"
              ]
            },
            "description": "Peptides that the trial tests (role tests). Empty when the trial only measures or mentions a tracked peptide."
          },
          "related_peptides": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "id": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "slug": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "name": {
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "role": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "enum": [
                    "tests",
                    "measures",
                    "mentions"
                  ],
                  "description": "How the trial relates to this peptide: tests, measures or mentions. Only tests is a trial of the peptide."
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "id",
                "slug",
                "name"
              ]
            },
            "description": "Peptides that the trial only measures or mentions (role measures or mentions). The trial is not a trial of these peptides: do not present it as one."
          },
          "url": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "id",
          "nct",
          "title",
          "acronym",
          "status",
          "phases",
          "study_type",
          "enrollment",
          "start_date",
          "primary_completion_date",
          "completion_date",
          "sponsor",
          "conditions",
          "has_results",
          "last_update",
          "peptides",
          "url"
        ],
        "additionalProperties": {}
      }
    },
    "counts": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "findings": {
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "publications": {
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "trials": {
          "type": "integer"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "findings",
        "publications",
        "trials"
      ],
      "description": "Exact numbers of checked findings, stored papers and trials that contain the search words, under the same filters as the lists. trials counts trials that test a peptide (role tests); other registry entries are in registry_other."
    },
    "registry_other": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "measures": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 0,
          "description": "Trials where the peptide is only a measured level or an eligibility term."
        },
        "mentions": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 0,
          "description": "Trials that name the peptide in the title, the summary or a free-text description only."
        },
        "total": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 0
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "measures",
        "mentions",
        "total"
      ],
      "description": "Registry entries that match the search and name a peptide without testing it (it is only a measured level, an eligibility term or a mention in the text). Not trials of the peptide. Counted apart from counts.trials."
    },
    "lists": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "findings": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "order": {
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "ranked",
                "evidence"
              ]
            },
            "ranked_pool": {
              "type": [
                "integer",
                "null"
              ]
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "order",
            "ranked_pool"
          ]
        },
        "publications": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "order": {
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "ranked",
                "citations"
              ]
            },
            "ranked_pool": {
              "type": [
                "integer",
                "null"
              ]
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "order",
            "ranked_pool"
          ]
        },
        "trials": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "order": {
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "updated"
              ]
            },
            "ranked_pool": {
              "type": "null"
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "order",
            "ranked_pool"
          ]
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "findings",
        "publications",
        "trials"
      ],
      "description": "How each list is ordered. \"ranked\" = top of a hybrid ranking (full-text plus semantic similarity); ranked_pool is the length of that ranking (at most 400) and is NOT a total of matches, so a client says \"top N ranked\" and never \"N results\". \"evidence\" = human evidence first, then newest. \"citations\" = checked papers first, then most cited. \"updated\" = most recently updated first. counts holds the exact full-text totals."
    }
  },
  "requi

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