navsection: api
navmenu: API Methods
title: "specimens"
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+{% comment %}
+Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
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+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
+{% endcomment %}
-See "REST methods for working with Arvados resources":{{site.baseurl}}/api/methods.html
+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@
-Required arguments are displayed in %{background:#ccffcc}green%.
+Object type: @j58dm@
+
+Example UUID: @zzzzz-j58dm-0123456789abcde@
+
+h2. Resource
+
+A metadata record that may be used to represent a biological specimen.
+
+Each Specimen has, in addition to the "Common resource fields":{{site.baseurl}}/api/resources.html:
+
+table(table table-bordered table-condensed).
+|_. Attribute|_. Type|_. Description|_. Example|
+|material|string|||
+|properties|hash|||
+
+h2. Methods
+See "Common resource methods":{{site.baseurl}}/api/methods.html for more information about @create@, @delete@, @get@, @list@, and @update@.
+
+Required arguments are displayed in %{background:#ccffcc}green%.
-h2. create
+h3. create
Create a new Specimen.
|_. Argument |_. Type |_. Description |_. Location |_. Example |
|specimen|object||query||
-h2. delete
+h3. delete
Delete an existing Specimen.
|_. Argument |_. Type |_. Description |_. Location |_. Example |
{background:#ccffcc}.|uuid|string|The UUID of the Specimen in question.|path||
-h2. get
+h3. get
Gets a Specimen's metadata by UUID.
|_. Argument |_. Type |_. Description |_. Location |_. Example |
{background:#ccffcc}.|uuid|string|The UUID of the Specimen in question.|path||
-h2. list
+h3. list
List specimens.
-Arguments:
-
-table(table table-bordered table-condensed).
-|_. Argument |_. Type |_. Description |_. Location |_. Example |
-|limit|integer (default 100)|Maximum number of specimens to return.|query||
-|order|string|Order in which to return matching specimens.|query||
-|filters|array|Conditions for filtering specimens.|query||
+See "common resource list method.":{{site.baseurl}}/api/methods.html#index
-h2. update
+h3. update
Update attributes of an existing Specimen.