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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: 20-8789575-G-A (hg38)

Bash / cURL Example

bash
curl "https://api.genebe.net/cloud/api-public/v1/variant?chr=20&pos=8789575&ref=G&alt=A&genome=hg38&allGenes=true"

API Response

json
{
  "variants": [
    {
      "chr": "20",
      "pos": 8789575,
      "ref": "G",
      "alt": "A",
      "effect": "splice_region_variant,synonymous_variant",
      "transcript": "NM_015192.4",
      "consequences": [
        {
          "aa_ref": "R",
          "aa_alt": "R",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": true,
          "consequences": [
            "splice_region_variant",
            "synonymous_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 30,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 32,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PLCB1",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 15917,
          "hgvs_c": "c.3336G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Arg1112Arg",
          "transcript": "NM_015192.4",
          "protein_id": "NP_056007.1",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
          "aa_start": 1112,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 1216,
          "cds_start": 3336,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 3651,
          "cdna_start": 3722,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 7088,
          "mane_select": "ENST00000338037.11",
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "R",
          "aa_alt": "R",
          "canonical": true,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": true,
          "consequences": [
            "splice_region_variant",
            "synonymous_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 30,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 32,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PLCB1",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 15917,
          "hgvs_c": "c.3336G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Arg1112Arg",
          "transcript": "ENST00000338037.11",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000338185.6",
          "transcript_support_level": 1,
          "aa_start": 1112,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 1216,
          "cds_start": 3336,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 3651,
          "cdna_start": 3722,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 7088,
          "mane_select": "NM_015192.4",
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "R",
          "aa_alt": "R",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": true,
          "consequences": [
            "splice_region_variant",
            "synonymous_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 30,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 32,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PLCB1",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 15917,
          "hgvs_c": "c.3336G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Arg1112Arg",
          "transcript": "ENST00000378637.6",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000367904.2",
          "transcript_support_level": 1,
          "aa_start": 1112,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 1173,
          "cds_start": 3336,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 3522,
          "cdna_start": 3339,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 3864,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "R",
          "aa_alt": "R",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": true,
          "consequences": [
            "splice_region_variant",
            "synonymous_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 30,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 33,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PLCB1",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 15917,
          "hgvs_c": "c.3336G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Arg1112Arg",
          "transcript": "ENST00000378641.7",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000367908.3",
          "transcript_support_level": 1,
          "aa_start": 1112,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 1173,
          "cds_start": 3336,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 3522,
          "cdna_start": 3850,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 7323,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": null,
          "aa_alt": null,
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": false,
          "strand": true,
          "consequences": [
            "splice_region_variant",
            "non_coding_transcript_exon_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 22,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 27,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PLCB1",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 15917,
          "hgvs_c": "n.2556G>A",
          "hgvs_p": null,
          "transcript": "ENST00000487210.5",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000431704.1",
          "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": 4781,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "R",
          "aa_alt": "R",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": true,
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            "splice_region_variant",
            "synonymous_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 30,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 33,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PLCB1",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 15917,
          "hgvs_c": "c.3336G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Arg1112Arg",
          "transcript": "NM_182734.3",
          "protein_id": "NP_877398.1",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
          "aa_start": 1112,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 1173,
          "cds_start": 3336,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 3522,
          "cdna_start": 3722,
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          "cdna_length": 7206,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "R",
          "aa_alt": "R",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": true,
          "consequences": [
            "splice_region_variant",
            "synonymous_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 30,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 33,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PLCB1",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 15917,
          "hgvs_c": "c.3033G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Arg1011Arg",
          "transcript": "ENST00000637919.1",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000490862.1",
          "transcript_support_level": 5,
          "aa_start": 1011,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 1072,
          "cds_start": 3033,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 3219,
          "cdna_start": 3291,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 5074,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "R",
          "aa_alt": "R",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": true,
          "consequences": [
            "splice_region_variant",
            "synonymous_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 5,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 7,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PLCB1",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 15917,
          "hgvs_c": "c.594G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Arg198Arg",
          "transcript": "ENST00000628239.2",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000487544.1",
          "transcript_support_level": 5,
          "aa_start": 198,
          "aa_end": null,
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          "cds_start": 594,
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          "cds_length": 693,
          "cdna_start": 596,
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          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "R",
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          "protein_coding": true,
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            "splice_region_variant",
            "synonymous_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 1,
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          "exon_count": 3,
          "intron_rank": null,
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          "gene_symbol": "PLCB1",
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          "hgvs_c": "c.30G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Arg10Arg",
          "transcript": "ENST00000437439.2",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000389911.2",
          "transcript_support_level": 3,
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          "biotype": null,
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            "splice_region_variant",
            "non_coding_transcript_exon_variant"
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          "gene_symbol": "PLCB1",
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          "hgvs_c": "n.504G>A",
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          "transcript": "ENST00000635929.1",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000490792.1",
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        }
      ],
      "gene_symbol": "PLCB1",
      "gene_hgnc_id": 15917,
      "dbsnp": "rs771734537",
      "frequency_reference_population": 0.0000020639438,
      "hom_count_reference_population": 0,
      "allele_count_reference_population": 3,
      "gnomad_exomes_af": 0.00000206394,
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      "gnomad_exomes_homalt": 0,
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      "gnomad_mito_homoplasmic": null,
      "gnomad_mito_heteroplasmic": null,
      "computational_score_selected": -0.3700000047683716,
      "computational_prediction_selected": "Benign",
      "computational_source_selected": "BayesDel_noAF",
      "splice_score_selected": 0.8360000252723694,
      "splice_prediction_selected": "Pathogenic",
      "splice_source_selected": "dbscSNV1_RF",
      "revel_score": null,
      "revel_prediction": null,
      "alphamissense_score": null,
      "alphamissense_prediction": null,
      "bayesdelnoaf_score": -0.37,
      "bayesdelnoaf_prediction": "Benign",
      "phylop100way_score": 2.588,
      "phylop100way_prediction": "Benign",
      "spliceai_max_score": 0.2,
      "spliceai_max_prediction": "Benign",
      "dbscsnv_ada_score": 0.999215112909611,
      "dbscsnv_ada_prediction": "Pathogenic",
      "apogee2_score": null,
      "apogee2_prediction": null,
      "mitotip_score": null,
      "mitotip_prediction": null,
      "acmg_score": 3,
      "acmg_classification": "Uncertain_significance",
      "acmg_criteria": "PM2,PP3",
      "acmg_by_gene": [
        {
          "score": 3,
          "benign_score": 0,
          "pathogenic_score": 3,
          "criteria": [
            "PM2",
            "PP3"
          ],
          "verdict": "Uncertain_significance",
          "transcript": "NM_015192.4",
          "gene_symbol": "PLCB1",
          "hgnc_id": 15917,
          "effects": [
            "splice_region_variant",
            "synonymous_variant"
          ],
          "inheritance_mode": "AD,AR",
          "hgvs_c": "c.3336G>A",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Arg1112Arg"
        }
      ],
      "clinvar_disease": " 12,Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy,not provided",
      "clinvar_classification": "Uncertain significance",
      "clinvar_review_status": "criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts",
      "clinvar_submissions_summary": "US:2",
      "phenotype_combined": "not provided|Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 12",
      "pathogenicity_classification_combined": "Uncertain significance",
      "custom_annotations": null
    }
  ],
  "message": null
}