Look Up a Biomedical Name: Candidate Identifiers, Labels, Synonyms and Types (Translator Name Resolver)

rencinameresolver/lookup-name

Maps a biomedical name or fragment (a disease, gene, drug, chemical, phenotype) to ranked candidate concepts from the Translator Name Resolver: for each the preferred identifier (CURIE such as MONDO:0005015), label, known synonyms, Biolink types, taxa and a match score. Filter by Biolink type or by identifier prefix, page with offset, and switch autocomplete on for a partial word. An empty results list means no concept matched. Identifiers are conflated by gene with protein and by drug with chemical. Data from the NCATS Translator Name Resolver (RENCI), served by Eden Engine; not an official RENCI product.

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Price

$0.0026 per call

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Data source

Translator Name Resolver (RENCI)

Source: NCATS Translator Standards Reference Implementation team at RENCI (infores:sri-name-resolver), Name Resolver service, name-resolution-sri.renci.org. Served by Eden Engine; not an official RENCI product.

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// 1. search: find the tool
omnial_search({ query: "what you need" })

// 2. inspect: price and input schema
omnial_inspect({ tool: "rencinameresolver/lookup-name" })

// 3. learn: read the usage guide at runtime
omnial_learn({ tool: "rencinameresolver/lookup-name" })

// 4. run: price the exact call first, then run it
omnial_execute({ tool: "rencinameresolver/lookup-name", input: { /* see input_schema */ }, dry_run: true })
omnial_execute({ tool: "rencinameresolver/lookup-name", input: { /* ... */ } })

// 5. settle: the call is charged when it finishes, nothing to do

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Pricing

Every charge this tool can incur.

Charge	Price
Per call	$0.0026

Updated: Oct 21, 2026

Input and output schemas

Input schema

input_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "string"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 10,
      "maximum": 25,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "How many candidate concepts to return, 1 to 25. Each carries its synonym list, so ask for what you need."
    },
    "offset": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 1000,
      "minimum": 0,
      "description": "How many candidates to skip, for paging. Leave out for the first page."
    },
    "string": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 200,
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "The name or name fragment to look up, for example diabetes, aspirin or BRCA1."
    },
    "autocomplete": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Treat the string as an unfinished word and match on its prefix. The service defaults to false."
    },
    "biolink_type": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^(biolink:)?[A-Za-z]+$",
      "maxLength": 80,
      "description": "Only concepts of one Biolink type, with or without the biolink: prefix, for example Disease, Gene or SmallMolecule."
    },
    "only_prefixes": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9._]+(\\|[A-Za-z0-9._]+)*$",
      "maxLength": 120,
      "description": "Only identifiers from these vocabularies: a case-sensitive, pipe-separated prefix list such as MONDO|EFO."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output schema

output_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "results"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "results": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "taxa": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "description": "NCBITaxon identifiers the concept is specific to, if any."
          },
          "curie": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Preferred identifier of the concept, PREFIX:LOCAL."
          },
          "label": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Preferred label."
          },
          "score": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "Match score; higher is a better match."
          },
          "types": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "description": "Biolink types, most specific first."
          },
          "synonyms": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "description": "Known names of the concept."
          },
          "clique_identifier_count": {
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "How many identifiers the concept groups."
          }
        },
        "additionalProperties": true
      }
    }
  },
  "description": "`results` holds the ranked candidate concepts, best match first; it is empty when nothing matched.",
  "additionalProperties": true
}