National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Prokaryote API
#### Options to download prokaryote gene data, including the associated sequence and metadata.These gene services allow you to download gene and protein sequence, and metadata as a prokaryote gene data package, for prokaryotic [RefSeq non-redundant proteins](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/about/nonredundantproteins/).
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Prokaryote 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 Prokaryote. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and rate-limit docs.
This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.1, 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) Prokaryote 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 2
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 1 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Options to download prokaryote gene data, including the associated sequence and metadata. These gene services allow you to download gene and protein sequence, and metadata as a pr…
Schemas 5
The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are v2ProkaryoteGeneRequest (4 properties), rpcStatus (3 properties), protobufAny (2 properties), v2ProkaryoteGeneRequestGeneFlankConfig (1 property). 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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