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Benchling Entities API

Entities include DNA and AA sequences, oligos, molecules, custom entities, and other biological objects in Benchling. Entities support schemas, tags, and aliases, and can be registered.

Benchling Entities API is one of 58 APIs that Benchling publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Entities. 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 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 39 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.1, at version 2.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, /api/v2.

1 operations 1 paths 39 schemas 1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.1
API Version
2.0.0
Base URL
https://{tenant}.benchling.com/api/v2
Authentication
HTTP Basic, HTTP Basic, OAuth 2.0
License
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 3

Benchling Entities 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 API
  • basicClientIdSecretAuth — 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 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Entities 1

Entities include DNA and AA sequences, oligos, molecules, custom entities, and other biological objects in Benchling. Entities support schemas, tags, and aliases, and can be regis…

POST
/entities:bulk-upsert
Bulk upsert entities
bulkUpsertEntities 1 param body → 202400

Schemas 39

The contract defines 39 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are DnaSequenceBaseRequest (13 properties), Primer (9 properties), AaSequenceBaseRequest (9 properties), MoleculeBaseRequest (8 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

CustomEntityBaseRequest
object
7 properties
Primer
object
9 properties
AaSequenceBaseRequestForCreate
AaSequenceBaseRequest
object
9 properties
MoleculeBaseRequestForCreate
Fields
object
DnaSequenceBaseRequestForCreate
FieldWithResolution
CustomField
object
1 property
AaSequenceBulkUpsertRequest
NucleotideSequencePart
object
3 properties
BadRequestError
object
1 property
OligoBulkUpsertRequest
SequenceFeatureCustomField
object
A name and value pair associated with a sequence feature (annotation or translation). For genbank imports, these are the qualifiers associated with each featur…
2 properties
AaAnnotation
object
7 properties
DnaAnnotation
SequenceFeatureBase
object
4 properties
ArchiveRecordSet
object
Currently, we only support setting a null value for archiveRecord, which unarchives the item
DnaSequenceBaseRequest
object
13 properties
BaseError
object
3 properties
MoleculeStructure
object
2 properties
FieldType
string
OligoBaseRequestForCreate
FieldValueWithResolution
FieldsWithResolution
object
MoleculeBulkUpsertRequest
OligoBaseRequest
object
8 properties
DnaSequenceBulkUpsertRequest
Translation
Field
object
5 properties 1 required
DnaSequencePart
CustomEntityBulkUpsertRequest
AsyncTaskLink
object
1 property
EntityBulkUpsertBaseRequest
CustomFields
object
MoleculeBaseRequest
object
8 properties
EntitiesBulkUpsertRequest
object
6 properties
EntityUpsertBaseRequest
object
5 properties 3 required
CustomEntityBaseRequestForCreate

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

benchling-entities-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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