Biosafety Clearing-House API Documentation

Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH)

The Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH) is an international exchange platform for biosafety information. It facilitates the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and provides access to resources and information related to the safe transfer, handling, and use of living modified organisms.

Documented APIs

• User - Authentication — obtain the bearer token used by protected endpoints.
• Contact — create, read, update, delete, list and search.
• Organization — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• Virtual Library Resource — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• Capacity Development Initiative — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• Competent National Authority — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• National Website or Database — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• National Focal Point — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• Decision — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• Gene / DNA Sequence — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• Independent Risk Assessment — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• Law / Regulation — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• Living Modified Organism — search, get and field reference (read-only).

The documentation is being rebuilt one record type at a time; sections appear here as they complete review. See Record Types for the documented set, Realms for request routing, and Custom Types for the field types used in the tables.