Benchling Plates API
Plates are a structured inventory type, grids of wells that each function like containers. Plates come in two types: a traditional "fixed" type, where the wells cannot move, and a "matrix" type. A matrix plate has similar functionality to a box, where the containers inside can be moved around and removed altogether.Plates are all associated with schemas, which define the type of the plate (e.g. "96 Well Plate") along with the fields that are tracked, the dimensions of the plate, and whether or not the plate is a matrix plate or a traditional well plate.Like all inventory, every Plate has a barcode that is unique across the registry.
Benchling Plates API is one of 58 APIs that Benchling publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Plates. 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 7 operations across 5 paths, and defines 75 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 Plates 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 7
Across 5 paths, the API surfaces 7 operations — 3 GET, 1 PATCH, 3 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Plates are a structured inventory type, grids of wells that each function like containers. Plates come in two types: a traditional "fixed" type, where the wells cannot move, and a…
Schemas 75
The contract defines 75 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are RnaSequence (29 properties), DnaSequence (27 properties), Well (22 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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