Usage notes

Code-Snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/cellosaurus-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/cellosaurus-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/cellosaurus-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($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/cellosaurus-api/v1/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Beispiel-Response

Echte Antwort dieses Endpoints, erfasst beim letzten Health-Check.

{
    "data": {
        "note": "Cellosaurus is the reference encyclopaedia of cell lines — 150,000+ entries covering cancer cell lines, hybridomas, induced pluripotent stem cells and more, used throughout biomedical research. /v1/search?q=HeLa = search cell lines by name or keyword, returning each line's Cellosaurus accession (CVCL_…), name, category, species and disease; /v1/cellline?id=CVCL_0030 = a cell line's full record — its name and synonyms, category (e.g. cancer cell line), species with NCBI taxon id, sex, age, associated disease(s) with NCIt/ontology ids, tissue of origin, parent cell line and number of derived child lines, the count of literature references and cross-references (to ATCC, DSMZ, Wikidata, …), web pages, and — importantly — whether the line is flagged PROBLEMATIC (misidentified or contaminated, a major source of irreproducible research) with the explanatory notes. Accessions look like CVCL_0030 (HeLa). Data from Cellosaurus (CC-BY 4.0). For protein sequences see UniProt, for target-disease links Open Targets, for clinical trials the ClinicalTrials API.",
        "source": "Cellosaurus — SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (cellosaurus.org)",
        "endpoints": [
            "/v1/search",
            "/v1/cellline",
            "/v1/meta"
        ]
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-01T16:24:09.395Z",
        "request_id": "2dc86c14-6eac-4b09-b652-a16aea03494f"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta retrieved",
    "success": true
}