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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: 2-219418786-G-A (hg38)

Bash / cURL Example

bash
curl "https://api.genebe.net/cloud/api-public/v1/variant?chr=2&pos=219418786&ref=G&alt=A&genome=hg38&allGenes=true"

API Response

json
{
  "variants": [
    {
      "chr": "2",
      "pos": 219418786,
      "ref": "G",
      "alt": "A",
      "effect": "synonymous_variant",
      "transcript": "ENST00000373960.4",
      "consequences": [
        {
          "aa_ref": "E",
          "aa_alt": "E",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": true,
          "consequences": [
            "synonymous_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 1,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 9,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "DES",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 2770,
          "hgvs_c": "c.324G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Glu108Glu",
          "transcript": "NM_001927.4",
          "protein_id": "NP_001918.3",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
          "aa_start": 108,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 470,
          "cds_start": 324,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 1413,
          "cdna_start": 410,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 2243,
          "mane_select": "ENST00000373960.4",
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "E",
          "aa_alt": "E",
          "canonical": true,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": true,
          "consequences": [
            "synonymous_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 1,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 9,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "DES",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 2770,
          "hgvs_c": "c.324G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Glu108Glu",
          "transcript": "ENST00000373960.4",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000363071.3",
          "transcript_support_level": 1,
          "aa_start": 108,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 470,
          "cds_start": 324,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 1413,
          "cdna_start": 410,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 2243,
          "mane_select": "NM_001927.4",
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "E",
          "aa_alt": "E",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": true,
          "consequences": [
            "synonymous_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 1,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 9,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "DES",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 2770,
          "hgvs_c": "c.324G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Glu108Glu",
          "transcript": "NM_001382708.1",
          "protein_id": "NP_001369637.1",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
          "aa_start": 108,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 469,
          "cds_start": 324,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 1410,
          "cdna_start": 410,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 2240,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "E",
          "aa_alt": "E",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": true,
          "consequences": [
            "synonymous_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 1,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 9,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "DES",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 2770,
          "hgvs_c": "c.324G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Glu108Glu",
          "transcript": "NM_001382712.1",
          "protein_id": "NP_001369641.1",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
          "aa_start": 108,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 465,
          "cds_start": 324,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 1398,
          "cdna_start": 410,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 1639,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "E",
          "aa_alt": "E",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": true,
          "consequences": [
            "synonymous_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 1,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 9,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "DES",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 2770,
          "hgvs_c": "c.324G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Glu108Glu",
          "transcript": "NM_001382711.1",
          "protein_id": "NP_001369640.1",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
          "aa_start": 108,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 463,
          "cds_start": 324,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 1392,
          "cdna_start": 410,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 2222,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "E",
          "aa_alt": "E",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": true,
          "consequences": [
            "synonymous_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 1,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 9,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "DES",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 2770,
          "hgvs_c": "c.324G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Glu108Glu",
          "transcript": "NM_001382710.1",
          "protein_id": "NP_001369639.1",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
          "aa_start": 108,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 447,
          "cds_start": 324,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 1344,
          "cdna_start": 410,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 2174,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "E",
          "aa_alt": "E",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": true,
          "consequences": [
            "synonymous_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 1,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 7,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "DES",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 2770,
          "hgvs_c": "c.324G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Glu108Glu",
          "transcript": "NM_001382713.1",
          "protein_id": "NP_001369642.1",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
          "aa_start": 108,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 380,
          "cds_start": 324,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 1143,
          "cdna_start": 410,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 1973,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "E",
          "aa_alt": "E",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": true,
          "consequences": [
            "synonymous_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 1,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 7,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "DES",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 2770,
          "hgvs_c": "c.324G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Glu108Glu",
          "transcript": "NM_001382709.1",
          "protein_id": "NP_001369638.1",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
          "aa_start": 108,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 326,
          "cds_start": 324,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 981,
          "cdna_start": 410,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 1811,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        }
      ],
      "gene_symbol": "DES",
      "gene_hgnc_id": 2770,
      "dbsnp": "rs138677215",
      "frequency_reference_population": 0.0003062623,
      "hom_count_reference_population": 4,
      "allele_count_reference_population": 480,
      "gnomad_exomes_af": 0.000151951,
      "gnomad_genomes_af": 0.00173932,
      "gnomad_exomes_ac": 215,
      "gnomad_genomes_ac": 265,
      "gnomad_exomes_homalt": 1,
      "gnomad_genomes_homalt": 3,
      "gnomad_mito_homoplasmic": null,
      "gnomad_mito_heteroplasmic": null,
      "computational_score_selected": -0.4300000071525574,
      "computational_prediction_selected": "Benign",
      "computational_source_selected": "BayesDel_noAF",
      "splice_score_selected": 0.009999999776482582,
      "splice_prediction_selected": "Benign",
      "splice_source_selected": "max_spliceai",
      "revel_score": null,
      "revel_prediction": null,
      "alphamissense_score": null,
      "alphamissense_prediction": null,
      "bayesdelnoaf_score": -0.43,
      "bayesdelnoaf_prediction": "Benign",
      "phylop100way_score": 6.734,
      "phylop100way_prediction": "Uncertain_significance",
      "spliceai_max_score": 0.01,
      "spliceai_max_prediction": "Benign",
      "dbscsnv_ada_score": null,
      "dbscsnv_ada_prediction": null,
      "apogee2_score": null,
      "apogee2_prediction": null,
      "mitotip_score": null,
      "mitotip_prediction": null,
      "acmg_score": -18,
      "acmg_classification": "Benign",
      "acmg_criteria": "BP4_Moderate,BP6_Very_Strong,BS1,BS2",
      "acmg_by_gene": [
        {
          "score": -18,
          "benign_score": 18,
          "pathogenic_score": 0,
          "criteria": [
            "BP4_Moderate",
            "BP6_Very_Strong",
            "BS1",
            "BS2"
          ],
          "verdict": "Benign",
          "transcript": "ENST00000373960.4",
          "gene_symbol": "DES",
          "hgnc_id": 2770,
          "effects": [
            "synonymous_variant"
          ],
          "inheritance_mode": "AD,AR,SD",
          "hgvs_c": "c.324G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Glu108Glu"
        }
      ],
      "clinvar_disease": "Cardiovascular phenotype,Desmin-related myofibrillar myopathy,not provided,not specified",
      "clinvar_classification": "Benign/Likely benign",
      "clinvar_review_status": "criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts",
      "clinvar_submissions_summary": "LB:2 B:8",
      "phenotype_combined": "not specified|Cardiovascular phenotype|not provided|Desmin-related myofibrillar myopathy",
      "pathogenicity_classification_combined": "Benign/Likely benign",
      "custom_annotations": null
    }
  ],
  "message": null
}