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Reactome species API

Species comparison

Reactome species API is one of 23 APIs that Reactome publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include species. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 3 operations across 3 paths, and defines 8 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.1, at version 2.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, /AnalysisService.

3 operations 3 paths 8 schemas 3 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.1
API Version
2.0
Base URL
https://reactome.org/ContentService
Contact
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 3

Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 3 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

species 3

Species comparison

GET
/species/homoSapiens/{species}
Compares Homo sapiens to the specified species
compareHomoSapiensTo 10 params → 404
GET
/data/species/all
The list of all species in Reactome
getAllSpecies 2 params → 406500
GET
/data/species/main
The list of main species in Reactome
getSpecies 2 params → 406500

Schemas 8

The contract defines 8 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are AnalysisSummary (11 properties), EntityStatistics (11 properties), PathwaySummary (8 properties), AnalysisResult (8 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

AnalysisResult
object
8 properties
PathwaySummary
object
8 properties
AnalysisSummary
object
11 properties
ResourceSummary
object
3 properties
SpeciesSummary
object
5 properties
EntityStatistics
object
11 properties
ReactionStatistics
object
4 properties
ExpressionSummary
object
3 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

reactome-species-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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