National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Gene API
#### Options to download gene data, including the associated sequence and metadata.These gene services allow you to get gene metadata as a data report or download gene, transcript and protein sequence, and metadata, as a gene data package, for all genes in NCBI Gene.
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Gene API is one of 14 APIs that National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Gene. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and rate-limit docs.
This API exposes 28 operations across 28 paths, and defines 66 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version v2.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/v2.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Gene API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the query as api_key (ApiKeyAuth).
An API key is passed in the header as api-key (ApiKeyAuthHeader).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Paths & Operations 28
Across 28 paths, the API surfaces 28 operations — 20 GET, 8 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Options to download gene data, including the associated sequence and metadata. These gene services allow you to get gene metadata as a data report or download gene, transcript and…
Schemas 66
The contract defines 66 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are v2reportsGeneDescriptor (28 properties), v2GeneDatasetReportsRequest (16 properties), v2reportsProductDescriptor (12 properties), v2GeneDatasetRequest (9 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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