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Scientific

Category ID science · 83 types

IDNameCategoriesCountriesDescription
academicdegree Academic degree draft persons, science global Academic degree title
arrayexpress_accession ArrayExpress accession draft science global Accession of an experiment or array design in ArrayExpress, the EMBL-EBI archive of functional genomics data, now a collection of the...
arxiv_id arXiv identifier draft science, publishing global Identifier of a preprint in arXiv. Since 2007 it is YYMM.NNNNN (four digits before 2015); older papers use the archive name and a...
bibcode Bibcode (ADS bibliographic code) draft science, publishing global Nineteen-character identifier of a publication in the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and other astronomy databases. Its fixed...
bioproject_accession BioProject accession draft science global Accession of a research project in BioProject, the project registry shared by NCBI, ENA and DDBJ. A BioProject groups the sequence...
biosample_accession BioSample accession draft science global Accession of a biological sample description in the BioSample databases of NCBI, EMBL-EBI and DDBJ. Sequencing, gene expression and...
cell_ontology_id Cell Ontology (CL) term ID draft science global Identifier of a cell type in the Cell Ontology, a structured vocabulary of cell types from prokaryotes to mammals, plants and fungi. It...
cellosaurus_id Cellosaurus accession (RRID:CVCL) draft science, medical global Accession of a cell line in Cellosaurus, the cell line knowledge resource of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: CVCL_ and four...
chebi_id ChEBI ID draft chemistry, science global Number of an entry in ChEBI (Chemical Entities of Biological Interest), the EMBL-EBI dictionary of small molecules. It is often written...
clinvar_rcv_accession ClinVar RCV accession draft medical, science global Accession of a ClinVar reference record (RCV), which combines the interpretations that submitters gave for one variation and one...
clinvar_variation_id ClinVar Variation ID draft medical, science global Number of a variation record in ClinVar, the NCBI archive of reports on how human genetic variants relate to health conditions. The same...
coden CODEN bibliographic code draft publishing, science global Six-character code for the title of a periodical or non-serial publication, defined by ASTM E250 and assigned by the International CODEN...
cospar_id International Designator (COSPAR ID) of a space object draft science global International identifier of an artificial object in space, assigned by United States Space Command together with the satellite catalog...
dbgap_study_accession dbGaP study accession draft science global Accession of a study in dbGaP, the NCBI database that archives and distributes the results of studies of how genotype and phenotype...
dbsnp_id dbSNP Reference SNP number (rsID) draft science, medical global Identifier of a reference SNP record (RefSNP) in dbSNP, the database of short genetic variations kept by the US National Center for...
ddi_agency_id DDI agency identifier draft science, government global Identifier of an organization that maintains metadata in the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) standard, such as a national statistics...
doi Digital Object Identifier (DOI) science, identifiers global A digital object identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier or handle used to identify objects uniquely, standardized by the...
doid Disease Ontology ID (DOID) draft medical, science global Identifier of a human disease in the Disease Ontology: the prefix DOID: and a number.
doiprefix Digital Object Identifier (DOI) prefix science, identifiers global Identifier specific to a DOI registrant
ec_enzyme_number Enzyme Commission (EC) number draft science, chemistry global Classification number of an enzyme by the reaction it catalyses, assigned by the IUBMB: four numbers separated by dots, such as...
eco_id Evidence and Conclusion Ontology (ECO) term ID draft science global Identifier of a term in the Evidence and Conclusion Ontology, which classifies the kinds of evidence behind scientific statements, so...
efo_id Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO) ID draft science global Identifier of a term in the Experimental Factor Ontology of EMBL-EBI, which describes the variables of experiments in EBI databases,...
ega_accession European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) accession draft science global Accession of an object in the European Genome-phenome Archive, run by EMBL-EBI and the Centre for Genomic Regulation to archive and...
ensembl_id Ensembl stable ID (gene, transcript or protein) draft science global Stable identifier that the Ensembl genome database gives to a gene, transcript or protein of a vertebrate genome. It is ENS, a...
ensemblgeneid Ensembl gene ID draft science global Stable identifier of a gene in Ensembl, the genome database of EMBL-EBI. It is "ENS", a three-letter species code (none for human, MUS...
flybase_id FlyBase ID draft science global Identifier of an object in FlyBase, the database of Drosophila genes and genomes: FB, two letters for the kind of object and seven...
gbif_taxon_id GBIF taxon key draft science, environment global Numeric key of a taxon in the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, used in occurrence data downloads....
genome_assembly_accession Genome assembly accession (GCA, GCF) draft science global Accession of a genome assembly in the assembly databases of NCBI, ENA and DDBJ: GCA_ for an assembly as submitted to the INSDC archives...
geo_accession Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) accession draft science global Accession of a record in the Gene Expression Omnibus, the NCBI repository of gene expression and other functional genomics data. The...
go_id Gene Ontology term ID draft science global Identifier of a term in the Gene Ontology, which describes molecular functions, cellular components and biological processes: GO: and...
grid Global Research Identifier science, identifiers global Global Research Identifier Database (GRID) is a database of educational and research organizations worldwide, created and maintained by...
gwas_catalog_study_id GWAS Catalog study accession draft science, medical global Accession of a study in the GWAS Catalog, the EMBL-EBI database of published genome-wide association studies and their SNP-trait...
hgncid HGNC gene ID draft science, medical global Stable numeric identifier that the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) assigns to each human gene with an approved symbol. The ID...
hpo_id Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) term ID draft medical, science global Identifier of a term in the Human Phenotype Ontology, a vocabulary of the phenotypic abnormalities seen in human disease. It is HP: and...
insdc_accession INSDC sequence accession (GenBank, ENA, DDBJ) draft science global Accession number of a sequence record in the databases of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration: GenBank at NCBI,...
interpro_id InterPro entry accession draft science global Accession of an entry in InterPro, the EMBL-EBI database that combines the protein signatures of member databases such as Pfam into...
isni International Standard Name Identifier science, objectids, identifiers global The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is an identifier system for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors...
isrctn_number ISRCTN registration number draft medical, science global Registration number of a study in the ISRCTN registry, a primary clinical study registry recognised by the WHO International Clinical...
itis_tsn ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN) draft science, environment global Number of a scientific name in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System run by US, Canadian and Mexican government agencies.
kegg_compound_id KEGG COMPOUND identifier draft chemistry, science global Identifier of a small molecule or other chemical substance in KEGG COMPOUND, one of the KEGG LIGAND databases: C and a number, as in...
kegg_orthology_id KEGG Orthology (KO) identifier draft science global Identifier of a KEGG Orthology group: a manually defined group of orthologous genes that matches a node in KEGG pathway maps and BRITE...
kegg_pathway_id KEGG pathway map identifier draft science global Identifier of a pathway map in KEGG PATHWAY, the hand-drawn maps of molecular interaction and reaction networks of the Kyoto...
lipidmaps_id LIPID MAPS ID (LM ID) draft chemistry, science global Identifier of a lipid in the LIPID MAPS Structure Database. It is LM, a two-letter code of one of the eight LIPID MAPS lipid categories,...
lsid Life Science Identifier (LSID) draft science global Identifier for a piece of life-science data, written in URN form as urn:lsid:<authority>:<namespace>:<object id>, optionally followed by...
mesh_descriptor_id MeSH descriptor ID draft medical, science global Unique identifier of a descriptor (D and six or nine digits) or supplementary concept record (C and six or nine digits) in Medical...
mesh_tree_number MeSH tree number draft medical, science global Position of a descriptor in the MeSH hierarchy: a letter and two digits for the top category, then groups of three digits separated by...
metabolights_id MetaboLights accession draft science global Accession in MetaboLights, the EMBL-EBI database of metabolomics experiments and metabolites: MTBLS and a number for a study, MTBLC and...
mgi_id Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) accession ID draft science global Accession ID of an object in Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI), the database of the laboratory mouse, such as a gene or another genome...
mondo_id Mondo Disease Ontology ID draft medical, science global Identifier of a disease in Mondo, an ontology that harmonizes disease definitions from many terminologies. It is MONDO: and seven...
ncbi_taxon_id NCBI Taxonomy ID draft science global Number of a taxon in the Taxonomy database of the US National Center for Biotechnology Information, which names the organisms in the...
ncbigeneid NCBI Gene ID (Entrez Gene) draft science global Numeric identifier of a gene record in the NCBI Gene database (formerly Entrez Gene) of the US National Center for Biotechnology...
ncitcode NCI Thesaurus code draft medical, science global Concept code in the NCI Thesaurus (NCIt), the reference vocabulary of the US National Cancer Institute for drugs, diseases, genes,...
nct_number ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number) draft medical, science global Registration number of a clinical study in ClinicalTrials.gov, the registry of the US National Library of Medicine: NCT and eight digits.
omim_id OMIM number draft medical, science global Six-digit number of an entry in Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, the catalogue of human genes and genetic disorders run by Johns...
openalexid OpenAlex ID science, identifiers global Identifier of an entity in OpenAlex, the open catalogue of scholarly works: a letter for the entity type and a number. W is a work, A an...
orcid Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) science, persons global The ORCID, Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely identify authors and contributors of...
pdbid Protein Data Bank (PDB) ID draft science, chemistry global Four-character identifier of a three-dimensional structure entry in the Protein Data Bank, the archive of protein and nucleic acid...
pfam_id Pfam family accession draft science global Accession of a protein family or domain in Pfam, a collection of protein families described by multiple sequence alignments and hidden...
pmcid PubMed Central ID (PMCID) draft science, publishing, medical global Number of a full-text article in PubMed Central, the free archive of the US National Library of Medicine. It is written with the prefix...
pmid PubMed ID (PMID) draft science, publishing, medical global Number of a citation record in PubMed, the biomedical literature database of the US National Library of Medicine. It has up to eight digits.
pride_project_id PRIDE project accession draft science global Accession of a project in PRIDE, the EMBL-EBI public repository of protein and peptide identifications from proteomics experiments: P, a...
publisher_item_identifier Publisher Item Identifier (PII) draft publishing, science global Identifier of an article or chapter, used since 1996 by Elsevier, the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, IEEE and...
re3data_id re3data repository ID draft science global Identifier of a research data repository in re3data, the Registry of Research Data Repositories. It is r3d followed by a number of up to...
reactome_id Reactome stable identifier draft science global Stable identifier of a pathway, reaction or other entry in Reactome, the curated knowledgebase of biological pathways. It is R-, a...
refseq_accession NCBI RefSeq accession draft science global Accession of a record in RefSeq, the curated, non-redundant collection of reference genomic, transcript and protein sequences of the US...
researcherid ResearcherID science, persons global ResearcherID is an identifying system for scientific authors. The system was introduced in January 2008 by Thomson Reuters.
rgd_id Rat Genome Database (RGD) ID draft science global Number of a gene or other object in the Rat Genome Database (RGD). Bioregistry gives the format as four or more digits. Rat strains and...
rhea_id Rhea reaction identifier draft science global Number of a reaction in Rhea, the expert-curated knowledgebase of biochemical and transport reactions whose participants are described...
rorid ROR Identifier (ROR ID) science global Research Organization Registry (ROR) is a community-led database that aims to provide a persistent identifier for every research...
rrid Research Resource Identifier (RRID) draft science global Persistent identifier for a research resource such as an antibody, cell line, model organism, plasmid or software tool, cited in...
scopus_source_id Scopus source ID draft science, publishing global Number of a journal, book series or conference proceedings in the Scopus bibliographic database of Elsevier.
scopusauthoirid Scopus author ID persons, science global identifier for an author assigned in Scopus bibliographic database
sequence_ontology_id Sequence Ontology (SO) term ID draft science global Identifier of a term in the Sequence Ontology, the controlled vocabulary for the parts of genome annotations and for sequence variants,...
sgd_id Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) ID draft science global Identifier of a feature in the Saccharomyces Genome Database, the database of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Each feature...
smiles SMILES chemical notation draft chemistry, science global Simplified Molecular-Input Line-Entry System (SMILES): a line notation that writes the structure of a molecule as a short ASCII string....
species Species draft science global Name of a biological species, either its scientific name, such as Panthera leo, or a common name, such as lion. Typical columns are in...
sra_accession Sequence Read Archive accession (SRA, ENA, DDBJ) draft science global Accession of an object in the sequence read archives of NCBI (SRA), EMBL-EBI (ENA) and DDBJ, which store raw data from high-throughput...
temperature Temperature draft values, science, environment global A measured or set temperature, such as an air, water or body temperature reading. Datasets store it as a number in degrees Celsius,...
uberon_id Uberon anatomy ontology ID draft science global Identifier of an anatomical structure in Uberon, a cross-species anatomy ontology that links the anatomy terms of expression and...
uniprot_id UniProtKB accession number draft science global Stable identifier of a protein entry in the UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB), the protein sequence and function database of the UniProt...
wormbase_id WormBase ID draft science global Identifier of an object in WormBase, the database of Caenorhabditis elegans and other nematodes: WB, a capitalized class name and...
worms_aphia_id WoRMS AphiaID draft science global Number of a taxon name in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the expert-curated list of names of marine organisms with their...
zfin_id ZFIN ID draft science global Identifier of an object in ZFIN, the Zebrafish Information Network model organism database: ZDB-, the kind of object, such as GENE, and...