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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: 19-19563529-C-T (hg38)

Bash / cURL Example

bash
curl "https://api.genebe.net/cloud/api-public/v1/variant?chr=19&pos=19563529&ref=C&alt=T&genome=hg38&allGenes=true"

API Response

json
{
  "variants": [
    {
      "chr": "19",
      "pos": 19563529,
      "ref": "C",
      "alt": "T",
      "effect": "missense_variant",
      "transcript": "NM_025245.3",
      "consequences": [
        {
          "aa_ref": "G",
          "aa_alt": "R",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "missense_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 7,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 8,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PBX4",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 13403,
          "hgvs_c": "c.1012G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Gly338Arg",
          "transcript": "NM_025245.3",
          "protein_id": "NP_079521.1",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
          "aa_start": 338,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 374,
          "cds_start": 1012,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 1125,
          "cdna_start": 1070,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 1495,
          "mane_select": "ENST00000251203.14",
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "G",
          "aa_alt": "R",
          "canonical": true,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "missense_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 7,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 8,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PBX4",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 13403,
          "hgvs_c": "c.1012G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Gly338Arg",
          "transcript": "ENST00000251203.14",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000251203.5",
          "transcript_support_level": 1,
          "aa_start": 338,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 374,
          "cds_start": 1012,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 1125,
          "cdna_start": 1070,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 1495,
          "mane_select": "NM_025245.3",
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": null,
          "aa_alt": null,
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": false,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "non_coding_transcript_exon_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 7,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 8,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PBX4",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 13403,
          "hgvs_c": "n.*570G>A",
          "hgvs_p": null,
          "transcript": "ENST00000557978.6",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000453348.1",
          "transcript_support_level": 1,
          "aa_start": null,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": null,
          "cds_start": -4,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": null,
          "cdna_start": null,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 1416,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": null,
          "aa_alt": null,
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": false,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "3_prime_UTR_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 7,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 8,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PBX4",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 13403,
          "hgvs_c": "n.*570G>A",
          "hgvs_p": null,
          "transcript": "ENST00000557978.6",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000453348.1",
          "transcript_support_level": 1,
          "aa_start": null,
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          "aa_length": null,
          "cds_start": -4,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": null,
          "cdna_start": null,
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          "cdna_length": 1416,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "G",
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          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "missense_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 8,
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          "exon_count": 9,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PBX4",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 13403,
          "hgvs_c": "c.1063G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Gly355Arg",
          "transcript": "XM_011528320.4",
          "protein_id": "XP_011526622.1",
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          "cdna_length": 1546,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
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          "strand": false,
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            "missense_variant"
          ],
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          "exon_rank_end": null,
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          "intron_rank": null,
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          "gene_symbol": "PBX4",
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          "hgvs_c": "c.754G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Gly252Arg",
          "transcript": "XM_006722911.4",
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          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
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        {
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          "protein_coding": true,
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            "missense_variant"
          ],
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          "exon_count": 7,
          "intron_rank": null,
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          "gene_symbol": "PBX4",
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          "hgvs_c": "c.754G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Gly252Arg",
          "transcript": "XM_011528322.2",
          "protein_id": "XP_011526624.1",
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          "cdna_start": 934,
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          "cdna_length": 1359,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
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        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "G",
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          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "missense_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 6,
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          "exon_count": 7,
          "intron_rank": null,
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          "gene_symbol": "PBX4",
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        {
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      "splice_source_selected": "max_spliceai",
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      "revel_prediction": "Benign",
      "alphamissense_score": 0.0913,
      "alphamissense_prediction": "Benign",
      "bayesdelnoaf_score": -0.23,
      "bayesdelnoaf_prediction": "Benign",
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      "phylop100way_prediction": "Benign",
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      "spliceai_max_prediction": "Benign",
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      "acmg_score": 0,
      "acmg_classification": "Uncertain_significance",
      "acmg_criteria": "PM2,BP4_Moderate",
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            "BP4_Moderate"
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          "verdict": "Uncertain_significance",
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          "gene_symbol": "PBX4",
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          "effects": [
            "missense_variant"
          ],
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          "hgvs_p": "p.Gly338Arg"
        }
      ],
      "clinvar_disease": "not specified",
      "clinvar_classification": "Uncertain significance",
      "clinvar_review_status": "criteria provided, single submitter",
      "clinvar_submissions_summary": "US:1",
      "phenotype_combined": "not specified",
      "pathogenicity_classification_combined": "Uncertain significance",
      "custom_annotations": null
    }
  ],
  "message": null
}