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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: 8-56441946-A-G (hg38)

Bash / cURL Example

bash
curl "https://api.genebe.net/cloud/api-public/v1/variant?chr=8&pos=56441946&ref=A&alt=G&genome=hg38&allGenes=true"

API Response

json
{
  "variants": [
    {
      "chr": "8",
      "pos": 56441946,
      "ref": "A",
      "alt": "G",
      "effect": "intron_variant",
      "transcript": "ENST00000451791.7",
      "consequences": [
        {
          "aa_ref": null,
          "aa_alt": null,
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "intron_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": null,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 4,
          "intron_rank": 3,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PENK",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 8831,
          "hgvs_c": "c.139-9T>C",
          "hgvs_p": null,
          "transcript": "NM_001135690.3",
          "protein_id": "NP_001129162.1",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
          "aa_start": null,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 267,
          "cds_start": -4,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 804,
          "cdna_start": null,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 1251,
          "mane_select": "ENST00000451791.7",
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": null,
          "aa_alt": null,
          "canonical": true,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "intron_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": null,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 4,
          "intron_rank": 3,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PENK",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 8831,
          "hgvs_c": "c.139-9T>C",
          "hgvs_p": null,
          "transcript": "ENST00000451791.7",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000400894.2",
          "transcript_support_level": 1,
          "aa_start": null,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 267,
          "cds_start": -4,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 804,
          "cdna_start": null,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 1251,
          "mane_select": "NM_001135690.3",
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": null,
          "aa_alt": null,
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "intron_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": null,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 2,
          "intron_rank": 1,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PENK",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 8831,
          "hgvs_c": "c.139-9T>C",
          "hgvs_p": null,
          "transcript": "ENST00000314922.3",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000324248.3",
          "transcript_support_level": 1,
          "aa_start": null,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 267,
          "cds_start": -4,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 804,
          "cdna_start": null,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 1199,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": null,
          "aa_alt": null,
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "intron_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": null,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 3,
          "intron_rank": 2,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PENK",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 8831,
          "hgvs_c": "c.139-9T>C",
          "hgvs_p": null,
          "transcript": "ENST00000518974.5",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000428012.1",
          "transcript_support_level": 2,
          "aa_start": null,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 104,
          "cds_start": -4,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 317,
          "cdna_start": null,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 467,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": null,
          "aa_alt": null,
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "intron_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": null,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 2,
          "intron_rank": 1,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PENK",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 8831,
          "hgvs_c": "c.129+3870T>C",
          "hgvs_p": null,
          "transcript": "ENST00000517415.1",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000430268.1",
          "transcript_support_level": 3,
          "aa_start": null,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 88,
          "cds_start": -4,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 267,
          "cdna_start": null,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 532,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": null,
          "aa_alt": null,
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": false,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "intron_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": null,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 2,
          "intron_rank": 1,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PENK",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 8831,
          "hgvs_c": "n.61-9T>C",
          "hgvs_p": null,
          "transcript": "ENST00000523274.1",
          "protein_id": null,
          "transcript_support_level": 2,
          "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": 606,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        }
      ],
      "gene_symbol": "PENK",
      "gene_hgnc_id": 8831,
      "dbsnp": "rs187034999",
      "frequency_reference_population": 0.000090374146,
      "hom_count_reference_population": 1,
      "allele_count_reference_population": 144,
      "gnomad_exomes_af": 0.0000395542,
      "gnomad_genomes_af": 0.000571181,
      "gnomad_exomes_ac": 57,
      "gnomad_genomes_ac": 87,
      "gnomad_exomes_homalt": 1,
      "gnomad_genomes_homalt": 0,
      "gnomad_mito_homoplasmic": null,
      "gnomad_mito_heteroplasmic": null,
      "computational_score_selected": -0.6800000071525574,
      "computational_prediction_selected": "Benign",
      "computational_source_selected": "BayesDel_noAF",
      "splice_score_selected": 0.14000000059604645,
      "splice_prediction_selected": "Benign",
      "splice_source_selected": "dbscSNV1_RF",
      "revel_score": null,
      "revel_prediction": null,
      "alphamissense_score": null,
      "alphamissense_prediction": null,
      "bayesdelnoaf_score": -0.68,
      "bayesdelnoaf_prediction": "Benign",
      "phylop100way_score": 0.135,
      "phylop100way_prediction": "Benign",
      "spliceai_max_score": 0.02,
      "spliceai_max_prediction": "Benign",
      "dbscsnv_ada_score": 0.0000781582035890466,
      "dbscsnv_ada_prediction": "Benign",
      "apogee2_score": null,
      "apogee2_prediction": null,
      "mitotip_score": null,
      "mitotip_prediction": null,
      "acmg_score": -6,
      "acmg_classification": "Likely_benign",
      "acmg_criteria": "BP4_Strong,BP6_Moderate",
      "acmg_by_gene": [
        {
          "score": -6,
          "benign_score": 6,
          "pathogenic_score": 0,
          "criteria": [
            "BP4_Strong",
            "BP6_Moderate"
          ],
          "verdict": "Likely_benign",
          "transcript": "ENST00000451791.7",
          "gene_symbol": "PENK",
          "hgnc_id": 8831,
          "effects": [
            "intron_variant"
          ],
          "inheritance_mode": "AR",
          "hgvs_c": "c.139-9T>C",
          "hgvs_p": null
        }
      ],
      "clinvar_disease": "not provided",
      "clinvar_classification": "Likely benign",
      "clinvar_review_status": "criteria provided, single submitter",
      "clinvar_submissions_summary": "LB:1",
      "phenotype_combined": "not provided",
      "pathogenicity_classification_combined": "Likely benign",
      "custom_annotations": null
    }
  ],
  "message": null
}