Evidence-backed facts
- The BioSamples REST API exposes public sample records, attributes, relationships, external references, collections, and hypermedia links in supported representations. informative
- Public retrieval is separate from authenticated submission and update operations; credentials and private sample access must not be embedded in public artifacts. informative
- Clients must follow returned hypermedia links, content negotiation, identifiers, filters, cursor paging, HTTP status semantics, and documented authentication only for authorized writes. informative
- Sample metadata is submitter-provided and can be incomplete, updated, linked, or inconsistently standardized and does not prove sample identity, consent, provenance, or experimental quality. informative