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Ontology Lookup Service API boundary

Official-source access, authentication, request-shaping, freshness, legal, and interpretation boundaries for Ontology Lookup Service API.

version 1.0.0freshness currentobserved 2026-08-28T15:06:26Z

resource.public-data.ebi-ontology-lookup-service-api
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Evidence-backed facts

  1. The Ontology Lookup Service provides public discovery of biomedical ontologies, terms, properties, hierarchies, synonyms, mappings, and release metadata through REST endpoints. informative
  2. Public reads require no user credential and do not grant ontology ownership, term submission, curation, release, standards, or clinical authority. informative
  3. Clients must bind ontology and term identifiers, search text, field and synonym behavior, hierarchy traversal, language, page size, and pagination and preserve ontology-version context. informative
  4. Ontology terms and mappings can be deprecated, ambiguous, inferred, or inconsistent across sources and do not prove biological equivalence, diagnosis, causal relation, or current consensus. informative