National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Virus API
#### Options to download virus genome data, including the associated sequence and metadata.These virus services allow you to get virus genome metadata as a data report or download genome and protein sequence, and metadata, as a virus data package, for virus GenBank genomes.
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Virus 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 Virus. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and rate-limit docs.
This API exposes 19 operations across 19 paths, and defines 51 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) Virus 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 19
Across 19 paths, the API surfaces 19 operations — 12 GET, 7 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Options to download virus genome data, including the associated sequence and metadata. These virus services allow you to get virus genome metadata as a data report or download gen…
Schemas 51
The contract defines 51 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are v2reportsVirusAssembly (27 properties), v2VirusDatasetRequest (17 properties), v2Sars2ProteinDatasetRequest (14 properties), v2VirusAnnotationFilter (12 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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