aid: slingshot-biosciences
name: Slingshot Biosciences
description: 'Slingshot Biosciences is an Emeryville, California biotechnology company
  that engineers synthetic cell mimics — hydrogel-based particles that behave like
  real cells — as reproducible reference materials and controls for flow cytometry,
  spectral unmixing, immunophenotyping, cell and gene therapy potency assays, and instrument
  standardization. Its product families include TruCytes biomarker controls, ViaComp
  cell health controls, FlowCytes and ScatterBridge calibration controls, SpectraComp
  compensation and unmixing controls, QuantCytes quantitation controls and StimCytes
  functional controls. The company sells direct through a Shopify-backed storefront
  and publishes an unusually complete agent-facing surface for a life-sciences vendor:
  an llms.txt, an RFC 9727 /.well-known/api-catalog naming its Shopify Storefront GraphQL
  and Sanity Content Lake GROQ endpoints, content negotiation that serves markdown
  twins of every canonical page to agents that send Accept: text/markdown, and a live
  Shopify Storefront MCP server.'
image: https://www.slingshotbio.com/favicon.ico
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/slingshot-biosciences/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-05'
modified: '2026-08-05'
tags:
- Company
- Biotechnology
- Life Sciences
- Flow Cytometry
- Laboratory
- Synthetic Biology
- Diagnostics
- Cell Therapy
- E-Commerce
- GraphQL
- MCP
apis:
- name: Slingshot Bio Storefront GraphQL API
  description: 'The Shopify Storefront GraphQL API for the Slingshot Bio online store,
    declared by the company in its own /.well-known/api-catalog. Serves products, collections,
    cart and checkout operations for the cell mimic catalog. Introspection is open
    anonymously; the schema carries 428 types, 35 query fields and 40 mutations.'
  humanURL: https://www.slingshotbio.com/collections
  baseURL: https://slingshot-bio.myshopify.com/api/2026-07/graphql.json
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - E-Commerce
  - Products
  - Cart
  properties:
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/slingshot-biosciences-storefront.graphql
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/storefront
- name: Slingshot Bio Content Lake GROQ API
  description: 'The Sanity Content Lake GROQ query API for the Slingshot Bio editorial
    surface — pages, resources, blog posts, press releases, product sheets and webinars
    — declared by the company in its own /.well-known/api-catalog. The production dataset
    answers anonymous GROQ queries over HTTPS GET.'
  humanURL: https://www.slingshotbio.com/resources/blog
  baseURL: https://9l0m1rv5.api.sanity.io/v2025-08-29/data/query/production
  tags:
  - Content
  - CMS
  - GROQ
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.sanity.io/docs/http-query
- name: Slingshot Bio Storefront MCP Server
  description: 'A live Model Context Protocol server for the Slingshot Bio store, answering
    anonymous tools/list over HTTP JSON-RPC with five tools: search_catalog, get_product_details,
    get_cart, update_cart and search_shop_policies_and_faqs. Customer-scoped operations
    are protected by the OAuth 2.0 authorization server advertised at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.'
  humanURL: https://www.slingshotbio.com/
  baseURL: https://slingshot-bio.myshopify.com/api/mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Agents
  - E-Commerce
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/slingshot-biosciences-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/slingshot-biosciences-tool-crosswalk.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.slingshotbio.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.slingshotbio.com/resources/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://www.slingshotbio.com/contact
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.slingshotbio.com/collections/catalog-products
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.slingshotbio.com/request-a-quote-for-cell-mimics
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.slingshotbio.com/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.slingshotbio.com/privacy-policy
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/slingshot-biosciences-well-known.yml
- type: APICatalog
  url: well-known/slingshot-biosciences-api-catalog.json
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/slingshot-biosciences-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/slingshot-biosciences-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/slingshot-biosciences-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/slingshot-biosciences-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/slingshot-biosciences-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/slingshot-biosciences-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/slingshot-biosciences-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/slingshot-biosciences-problem-types.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/slingshot-biosciences-domain-security.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-05'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 22
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: null
  detail: >-
    Contract discovery beat the JS-rendered site. The company publishes an
    llms.txt, an RFC 9727 /.well-known/api-catalog naming two live APIs, markdown
    twins under Accept content negotiation, an anonymously introspectable
    Storefront GraphQL schema and an anonymous MCP tools/list.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.slingshotbio.com/.well-known/api-catalog
    status: 200
  - url: https://slingshot-bio.myshopify.com/api/mcp
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-05'