# ols4

> ols4 — ebispot-ols4. Use this tool when you need to access and query biological and biomedical ontologies, solving problems of data integration and standardization across different resources. The Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) provides an interface to search, browse, and retrieve ontology terms, supporting use cases such as data annotation and analysis. It accepts ontology identifiers and keywords as input and returns relevant terms, definitions, and metadata as output.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/ebispot-ols4  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/ebispot-ols4

## Description

The EMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup Service (OLS)

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.50
- **Verification tier:** unverified

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** container
- **Runtime environment:** vm
- **Category:** other
- **Updated:** 2026-09-28

## Source

- **Source listing:** [GitHub](https://github.com/EBISPOT/ols4)

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "ebispot-ols4"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/ebispot-ols4` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/ebispot-ols4/pull`

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