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GA4GH API

This is the documentation for the GA4GH API.

Contents

• Introduction
  • Why use this web API?
  • If you need background
  • The GA4GH web API
  • Schemas and formats
• API Overview
  • API Design
  • API Goals
  • Reads
  • Variants
  • References
  • Sequence Annotations
  • Metadata
  • Allele Annotations
  • RNA Quantification
  • Genotype to Phenotype
• Schemas
  • common
  • bio_metadata
  • bio_metadata_service
  • metadata
  • metadata_service
  • reads
  • read_service
  • references
  • reference_service
  • variants
  • variant_service
  • rna_quantification
  • rna_quantification_service
  • allele_annotations
  • allele_annotation_service
  • sequence_annotations
  • sequence_annotation_service
  • struct
  • genotype_phenotype
  • genotype_phenotype_service
• Appendix
  • Glossary
  • Use of Ontologies in GA4GH API
  • The JSON Format
  • Google Protocol Buffers
  • Code samples (stub)
  • Generating API Definitions