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  "id": "resource.public-data.metabolights-api",
  "version": "1.0.0",
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  "summary": "Official-source access, authentication, request-shaping, freshness, legal, and interpretation boundaries for MetaboLights API.",
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        "normativeLevel": "informative",
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        ]
      },
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        "id": "fact.ebi.metabolights-api.authentication",
        "statement": "Public study reads are separate from token-protected submission, update, review, and private-study operations; credentials must not appear in public records.",
        "normativeLevel": "informative",
        "sourceIds": [
          "source.ebi.metabolights-api"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "fact.ebi.metabolights-api.request",
        "statement": "Clients must bind study accession, endpoint, file or assay scope, format, version, validation behavior, and paging and distinguish public from private lifecycle states.",
        "normativeLevel": "informative",
        "sourceIds": [
          "source.ebi.metabolights-api"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "fact.ebi.metabolights-api.boundary",
        "statement": "Submitted metabolomics data can be revised, heterogeneous, incomplete, normalized differently, or method-dependent and does not prove metabolite identity, concentration, mechanism, or clinical relevance.",
        "normativeLevel": "informative",
        "sourceIds": [
          "source.ebi.metabolights-api"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "language": "en",
  "category": "public-data-api",
  "state": "prepared",
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    "name": "Plato's Kallipolis",
    "type": "organization",
    "accountabilityUrl": "https://platoskallipolis.com/about"
  },
  "access": {
    "mode": "public",
    "url": "https://platoskallipolis.com/resources/public-data-apis/metabolights-api.json",
    "authentication": "none",
    "robotsAllowed": true
  },
  "provenance": {
    "method": "primary-source",
    "sources": [
      {
        "id": "source.ebi.metabolights-api",
        "url": "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metabolights/ws/api/spec.html",
        "title": "MetaboLights REST API specification",
        "publisher": "European Bioinformatics Institute",
        "observedAt": "2026-08-28T15:06:26Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "observedAt": "2026-08-28T15:06:26Z",
  "freshness": {
    "policy": "max-age",
    "state": "current",
    "nextReviewAt": "2026-09-04T15:06:26Z",
    "maxAgeSeconds": 604800
  },
  "license": {
    "id": "source-terms-apply",
    "url": "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/terms-of-use",
    "redistributionAllowed": false
  },
  "evidence": [
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      "id": "evidence.ebi.metabolights-api",
      "type": "source-claim",
      "url": "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metabolights/ws/api/spec.html",
      "observedAt": "2026-08-28T15:06:26Z"
    }
  ]
}