---
id: "zfin_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["science"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 78
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/zfin_id"
---

# ZFIN ID (`zfin_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.

Identifier of an object in ZFIN, the Zebrafish Information Network model organism database: ZDB-, the kind of object, such as GENE, and two numbers separated by hyphens.

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

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^ZDB-\w+-\d+-\d+$
```

## Examples

- `ZDB-GENE-041118-11` — Gene pcdh2a36; Bioregistry example
- `ZDB-GENE-041118` (invalid example) — Missing the last number

## Mappings

- bioregistry: `zfin`
- wikidata: `P3870`

## Sources

- doc: <https://zfin.org/>
- other: <https://bioregistry.io/registry/zfin>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3870>

## Quality

Score 78/100. Missing: second example, translation, detector coverage.

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