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STRING

STRING Annotation API

Functional annotations and term lookup

Documentation Provider Profile APIs.io OpenAPI GitHub

STRING Annotation API is one of 7 APIs that STRING publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

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

This API exposes 3 operations across 3 paths, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 12.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://string-db.org.

3 operations 3 paths 5 schemas 3 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
12.0
Base URL
https://string-db.org
Authentication
API Key
Contact
STRING Consortium
License
Creative Commons Attribution
Terms of Service
View terms
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

STRING Annotation API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the query as api_key (ApiKeyAuth).

  • ApiKeyAuth — API key required only for Values/Ranks Enrichment endpoints. Obtain via POST /api/json/getapikey. All other endpoints are publicly accessible without authentic…

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.

annotation 3

Functional annotations and term lookup

GET
/api/{format}/functional_annotation
Functional Annotation
getFunctionalAnnotation 5 params → 200400
GET
/api/{format}/functional_terms
Functional Terms
getFunctionalTerms 5 params → 200400
GET
/api/{format}/geneset_description
Gene Set Description
getGenesetDescription 4 params → 200400

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are FunctionalAnnotation (7 properties), FunctionalTermResult (5 properties), Error (3 properties), GenesetDescription (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

TsvResponse
string
Tab-separated values response with header row
FunctionalAnnotation
object
Functional annotation for a protein
7 properties
Error
object
3 properties
GenesetDescription
object
Auto-generated description for a protein gene set
2 properties
FunctionalTermResult
object
Proteins associated with a specific functional term
5 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

string-db-annotation-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs STRING publishes across the network.

STRING Enrichment API
AE Profile APIs.io
STRING Homology API
AE Profile APIs.io
STRING Identifiers API
AE Profile APIs.io
STRING Network API
AE Profile APIs.io
STRING Utility API
AE Profile APIs.io
STRING Valuesranks API
AE Profile APIs.io
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API Details
ID
string-db:string-db-annotation-api
Base URL
https://string-db.org
Docs
https://string-db.org/help/api/
Provider
STRING
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