Benchling DNA Alignments API
A DNA alignment is a Benchling object representing an alignment of multiple DNA sequences. This endpoint is deprecated, please migrate to the existing [Nucleotide Alignments endpoints.](#/Nucleotide%20Alignments)
Benchling DNA Alignments API is one of 58 APIs that Benchling publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include DNA Alignments. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, authentication docs, a changelog, and a status page.
This API exposes 5 operations across 4 paths, and defines 16 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.1, at version 2.0.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, /api/v2.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 3
Benchling DNA Alignments API declares
3 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicApiKeyAuth).
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicClientIdSecretAuth).
It supports OAuth 2.0 (oAuth) using the clientCredentials flow.
By default, every request must be authenticated.
basicApiKeyAuth— Use issued API key for standard access to the APIbasicClientIdSecretAuth— Auth used as part of client credentials OAuth flow prior to receiving a bearer token.oAuth— OAuth2 Client Credentials flow intended for service access
Paths & Operations 5
Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
A DNA alignment is a Benchling object representing an alignment of multiple DNA sequences. This endpoint is deprecated, please migrate to the existing [Nucleotide Alignments endpo…
Schemas 16
The contract defines 16 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are AlignedSequence (7 properties), DnaAlignmentSummary (7 properties), MafftOptions (6 properties), ClustaloOptions (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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