Benchling Containers API
Containers are the backbone of sample management in Benchling. They represent physical containers, such as tubes or wells, that hold quantities of biological samples (represented by the entities inside the container). The container itself tracks its total volume, and the concentration of every entity inside of it.Containers are all associated with schemas, which define the type of the container (e.g. "Tube") along with the fields that are tracked.Like all inventory, every container has a barcode that is unique across the registry.
Benchling Containers API is one of 58 APIs that Benchling publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Containers. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, authentication docs, a changelog, and a status page.
This API exposes 19 operations across 15 paths, and defines 90 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.1, at version 2.0.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, /api/v2.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 3
Benchling Containers API declares
3 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicApiKeyAuth).
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicClientIdSecretAuth).
It supports OAuth 2.0 (oAuth) using the clientCredentials flow.
By default, every request must be authenticated.
basicApiKeyAuth— Use issued API key for standard access to the APIbasicClientIdSecretAuth— Auth used as part of client credentials OAuth flow prior to receiving a bearer token.oAuth— OAuth2 Client Credentials flow intended for service access
Paths & Operations 19
Across 15 paths, the API surfaces 19 operations — 1 DELETE, 5 GET, 2 PATCH, 11 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Containers are the backbone of sample management in Benchling. They represent physical containers, such as tubes or wells, that hold quantities of biological samples (represented…
Schemas 90
The contract defines 90 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are RnaSequence (29 properties), DnaSequence (27 properties), Container (21 properties), Mixture (21 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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