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GET /v1/search

Search the archive for a taxon's records

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/ena-api/v1/search" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/ena-api/v1/search", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/ena-api/v1/search");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/ena-api/v1/search",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "type": "assembly",
        "count": 10,
        "scope": "taxon and descendants",
        "taxon": "9606",
        "records": [
            {
                "accession": "GCA_000001405",
                "base_count": "3298912062",
                "assembly_name": "GRCh38.p14",
                "assembly_level": "chromosome",
                "scientific_name": "Homo sapiens",
                "genome_representation": "full"
            },
            {
                "accession": "GCA_000001405",
                "base_count": "3272116950",
                "assembly_name": "GRCh38.p13",
                "assembly_level": "chromosome",
                "scientific_name": "Homo sapiens",
                "genome_representation": "full"
            },
            {
                "accession": "GCA_000001405",
                "base_count": "3257347282",
                "assembly_name": "GRCh38.p12",
                "assembly_level": "chromosome",
                "scientific_name": "Homo sapiens",
                "genome_representation": "full"
            },
            {
                "accession": "GCA_000001405",
                "base_count": "3253848404",
                "assembly_name": "GRCh38.p11",
                "assembly_level": "chromosome",
                "scientific_name": "Homo sapiens",
                "genome_representation": "full"
            },
            {
                "accession": "GCA_000001405",
                "base_count": "3241953429",
                "assembly_name": "GRCh38.p10",
                "assembly_level": "chromosome",
                "scientific_name": "Homo sapiens",
                "genome_representation": "full"
            },
            {
                "accession": "GCA_000001405",
                "base_count": "3238442024",
                "assembly_name": "GRCh38.p9",
                "assembly_level": "chromosome",
                "scientific_name": "Homo sapiens",
                "genome_representation": "full"
            },
            {
                "accession": "GCA_000001405",
                "base_count": "3236336281",
                "assembly_name": "GRCh38.p8",
                "assembly_level": "chromosome",
                "scientific_name": "Homo sapiens",
                "genome_representation": "full"
            },
            {
                "accession": "GCA_000001405",
                "base_count": "3232546710",
                "assembly_name": "GRCh38.p7",
                "assembly_level": "chromosome",
                "scientific_name": "Homo sapiens",
                "genome_representation": "full"
            },
            {
                "accession": "GCA_000001405",
                "base_count": "3231297122",
                "assembly_name": "GRCh38.p6",
                "assembly_level": "chromosome",
                "scientific_name": "Homo sapiens",
                "genome_representation": "full"
            },
            {
                "acc
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