navmenu: API Methods
title: "specimens"
...
+{% comment %}
+Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
+{% endcomment %}
+
+p=. *Deprecated, likely to be removed in a future version. The recommended way to store metadata is "collection properties":collections.html*
API endpoint base: @https://{{ site.arvados_api_host }}/arvados/v1/specimens@