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GeneBe API Showcase

This page demonstrates how to use the GeneBe API to query variant information. The API provides programmatic access to genomic annotations and variant data.

API presented here should be used for checking single variants. If you want to check many variants at once, please use other API endpoints that you will find in the documentation.

Documentation & Advanced Usage

Complete API documentation:docs.genebe.net/docs/api/overview/

Interactive endpoint tester:api.genebe.net/cloud/gb-api-doc/swagger-ui/

Python client for pandas:pypi.org/project/genebe/

Java CLI for VCF files:github.com/pstawinski/genebe-cli

All tools documented at:docs.genebe.net

API Request Examples for Variant: 18-12351335-G-A (hg38)

Bash / cURL Example

bash
curl "https://api.genebe.net/cloud/api-public/v1/variant?chr=18&pos=12351335&ref=G&alt=A&genome=hg38&allGenes=true"

API Response

json
{
  "variants": [
    {
      "chr": "18",
      "pos": 12351335,
      "ref": "G",
      "alt": "A",
      "effect": "missense_variant",
      "transcript": "ENST00000269143.8",
      "consequences": [
        {
          "aa_ref": "P",
          "aa_alt": "L",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "missense_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 11,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 17,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "AFG3L2",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 315,
          "hgvs_c": "c.1397C>T",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Pro466Leu",
          "transcript": "NM_006796.3",
          "protein_id": "NP_006787.2",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
          "aa_start": 466,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 797,
          "cds_start": 1397,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 2394,
          "cdna_start": 1542,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 3160,
          "mane_select": "ENST00000269143.8",
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "P",
          "aa_alt": "L",
          "canonical": true,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "missense_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 11,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 17,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "AFG3L2",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 315,
          "hgvs_c": "c.1397C>T",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Pro466Leu",
          "transcript": "ENST00000269143.8",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000269143.2",
          "transcript_support_level": 1,
          "aa_start": 466,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 797,
          "cds_start": 1397,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 2394,
          "cdna_start": 1542,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 3160,
          "mane_select": "NM_006796.3",
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "P",
          "aa_alt": "L",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "missense_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 10,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 16,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "AFG3L2",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 315,
          "hgvs_c": "c.1322C>T",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Pro441Leu",
          "transcript": "ENST00000691179.1",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000509010.1",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
          "aa_start": 441,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 772,
          "cds_start": 1322,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 2319,
          "cdna_start": 1349,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 2954,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "P",
          "aa_alt": "L",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "missense_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 10,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 16,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "AFG3L2",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 315,
          "hgvs_c": "c.1259C>T",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Pro420Leu",
          "transcript": "ENST00000688199.1",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000510237.1",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
          "aa_start": 420,
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          "aa_length": 751,
          "cds_start": 1259,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 2256,
          "cdna_start": 1286,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 2888,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "P",
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          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "missense_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 11,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 16,
          "intron_rank": null,
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          "gene_symbol": "AFG3L2",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 315,
          "hgvs_c": "c.1397C>T",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Pro466Leu",
          "transcript": "XM_011525601.4",
          "protein_id": "XP_011523903.1",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
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          "cdna_start": 1542,
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          "cdna_length": 2959,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
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          "protein_coding": false,
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            "non_coding_transcript_exon_variant"
          ],
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          "gene_symbol": "AFG3L2",
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          "hgvs_c": "n.*993C>T",
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          "cdna_length": 2921,
          "mane_select": null,
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          "feature": null
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          "exon_count": 15,
          "intron_rank": null,
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          "gene_symbol": "AFG3L2",
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          "hgvs_c": "n.*774C>T",
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          "transcript": "ENST00000691970.1",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000508440.1",
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          "aa_start": null,
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          "cds_start": -4,
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          "cds_length": null,
          "cdna_start": null,
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          "cdna_length": 2773,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
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          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": false,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "non_coding_transcript_exon_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 11,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 18,
          "intron_rank": null,
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          "gene_symbol": "AFG3L2",
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          "hgvs_c": "n.1397C>T",
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          "transcript": "ENST00000692497.1",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000509870.1",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
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          "mane_select": null,
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        {
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            "non_coding_transcript_exon_variant"
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          "transcript": "ENST00000692988.1",
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      ],
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      "gnomad_mito_homoplasmic": null,
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      "computational_score_selected": 0.9908563494682312,
      "computational_prediction_selected": "Pathogenic",
      "computational_source_selected": "MetaRNN",
      "splice_score_selected": 0,
      "splice_prediction_selected": "Benign",
      "splice_source_selected": "max_spliceai",
      "revel_score": 0.894,
      "revel_prediction": "Pathogenic",
      "alphamissense_score": 0.9557,
      "alphamissense_prediction": "Pathogenic",
      "bayesdelnoaf_score": 0.4,
      "bayesdelnoaf_prediction": "Pathogenic",
      "phylop100way_score": 9.968,
      "phylop100way_prediction": "Pathogenic",
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      "spliceai_max_prediction": "Benign",
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      "acmg_score": 7,
      "acmg_classification": "Likely_pathogenic",
      "acmg_criteria": "PM1,PP2,PP3_Strong",
      "acmg_by_gene": [
        {
          "score": 7,
          "benign_score": 0,
          "pathogenic_score": 7,
          "criteria": [
            "PM1",
            "PP2",
            "PP3_Strong"
          ],
          "verdict": "Likely_pathogenic",
          "transcript": "ENST00000269143.8",
          "gene_symbol": "AFG3L2",
          "hgnc_id": 315,
          "effects": [
            "missense_variant"
          ],
          "inheritance_mode": "AR,AD",
          "hgvs_c": "c.1397C>T",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Pro466Leu"
        }
      ],
      "clinvar_disease": "Spastic ataxia 5,Spinocerebellar ataxia type 28,not provided",
      "clinvar_classification": "Uncertain significance",
      "clinvar_review_status": "criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts",
      "clinvar_submissions_summary": "US:4",
      "phenotype_combined": "Spinocerebellar ataxia type 28;Spastic ataxia 5|Spinocerebellar ataxia type 28|not provided",
      "pathogenicity_classification_combined": "Uncertain significance",
      "custom_annotations": null
    }
  ],
  "message": null
}