8 Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
10 SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
13 {% include 'notebox_begin_warning' %}
14 This is a legacy API. This endpoint is deprecated, disabled by default in new installations, and is slated to be removed entirely in a future major release of Arvados. The recommended way to store metadata is with "'properties' field on collections and projects.":../properties.html
15 {% include 'notebox_end' %}
17 API endpoint base: @https://{{ site.arvados_api_host }}/arvados/v1/specimens@
21 Example UUID: @zzzzz-j58dm-0123456789abcde@
25 A metadata record that may be used to represent a biological specimen.
27 Each Specimen has, in addition to the "Common resource fields":{{site.baseurl}}/api/resources.html:
29 table(table table-bordered table-condensed).
30 |_. Attribute|_. Type|_. Description|_. Example|
36 See "Common resource methods":{{site.baseurl}}/api/methods.html for more information about @create@, @delete@, @get@, @list@, and @update@.
38 Required arguments are displayed in %{background:#ccffcc}green%.
42 Create a new Specimen.
46 table(table table-bordered table-condensed).
47 |_. Argument |_. Type |_. Description |_. Location |_. Example |
48 |specimen|object||query||
52 Delete an existing Specimen.
56 table(table table-bordered table-condensed).
57 |_. Argument |_. Type |_. Description |_. Location |_. Example |
58 {background:#ccffcc}.|uuid|string|The UUID of the Specimen in question.|path||
62 Gets a Specimen's metadata by UUID.
66 table(table table-bordered table-condensed).
67 |_. Argument |_. Type |_. Description |_. Location |_. Example |
68 {background:#ccffcc}.|uuid|string|The UUID of the Specimen in question.|path||
74 See "common resource list method.":{{site.baseurl}}/api/methods.html#index
78 Update attributes of an existing Specimen.
82 table(table table-bordered table-condensed).
83 |_. Argument |_. Type |_. Description |_. Location |_. Example |
84 {background:#ccffcc}.|uuid|string|The UUID of the Specimen in question.|path||
85 |specimen|object||query||