---
id: "metabolights_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["science"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 85
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/metabolights_id"
---

# MetaboLights accession (`metabolights_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Accession in MetaboLights, the EMBL-EBI database of metabolomics experiments and metabolites: MTBLS and a number for a study, MTBLC and a number for a compound entry.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Scientific (science)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^MTBL[CS]\d+$
```

## Examples

- `MTBLS1` — Study of urinary changes in type 2 diabetes in humans; Bioregistry example
- `MTBLC17170` — Compound entry for dimethylamine; example of Wikidata property P3890
- `MTBL1` (invalid example) — No letter for the kind of entry

## Mappings

- bioregistry: `metabolights`
- wikidata: `P3890`

## Sources

- doc: <https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metabolights/>
- other: <https://bioregistry.io/registry/metabolights>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3890>

## Quality

Score 85/100. Missing: translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/metabolights_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/science/metabolights_id.yaml>