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GET variant_recoder/:species/:id

Translate a variant identifier, HGVS notation or genomic SPDI notation to all possible variant IDs, HGVS and genomic SPDI

Parameters

Required

NameTypeDescriptionDefaultExample Values
id String Variant ID, HGVS notation or genomic SPDI notation - rs56116432
ENST00000366667:c.803C>T
NC_000023.11:284252:C:G
species String Species name/alias - homo_sapiens
human

Optional

NameTypeDescriptionDefaultExample Values
callback String Name of the callback subroutine to be returned by the requested JSONP response. Required ONLY when using JSONP as the serialisation method. Please see the user guide. - randomlygeneratedname
fields String Comma-separated list of identifiers/notations to include from the following types: id (variant ID), hgvsg (HGVS genomic), hgvsc (HGVS coding), hgvsp (HGVS protein), spdi (SPDI genomic) id,hgvsg,hgvsc,hgvsp,spdi -
var_synonyms Boolean(0,1) Known variation synonyms and their sources 0 -
vcf_string Boolean(0,1) VCF represented in a string 0 -

Example Requests

/variant_recoder/human/rs56116432?content-type=application/json


use strict;
use warnings;

use HTTP::Tiny;

my $http = HTTP::Tiny->new();

my $server = 'https://jan2020.rest.ensembl.org';
my $ext = '/variant_recoder/human/rs56116432?';
my $response = $http->get($server.$ext, {
  headers => { 'Content-type' => 'application/json' }
});

die "Failed!\n" unless $response->{success};


use JSON;
use Data::Dumper;
if(length $response->{content}) {
  my $hash = decode_json($response->{content});
  local $Data::Dumper::Terse = 1;
  local $Data::Dumper::Indent = 1;
  print Dumper $hash;
  print "\n";
}


import requests, sys

server = "https://jan2020.rest.ensembl.org"
ext = "/variant_recoder/human/rs56116432?"

r = requests.get(server+ext, headers={ "Content-Type" : "application/json"})

if not r.ok:
  r.raise_for_status()
  sys.exit()

decoded = r.json()
print repr(decoded)


import requests, sys

server = "https://jan2020.rest.ensembl.org"
ext = "/variant_recoder/human/rs56116432?"

r = requests.get(server+ext, headers={ "Content-Type" : "application/json"})

if not r.ok:
  r.raise_for_status()
  sys.exit()

decoded = r.json()
print(repr(decoded))


require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

server='https://jan2020.rest.ensembl.org'
path = '/variant_recoder/human/rs56116432?'

url = URI.parse(server)
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(path, {'Content-Type' => 'application/json'})

response = http.request(request)

if response.code != "200"
  puts "Invalid response: #{response.code}"
  puts response.body
  exit
end


require 'rubygems'
require 'json'
require 'yaml'

result = JSON.parse(response.body)
puts YAML::dump(result)


import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;


public class EnsemblRest {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    String server = "https://jan2020.rest.ensembl.org";
    String ext = "/variant_recoder/human/rs56116432?";
    URL url = new URL(server + ext);

    URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
    HttpURLConnection httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection)connection;
    
    httpConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
    

    InputStream response = connection.getInputStream();
    int responseCode = httpConnection.getResponseCode();

    if(responseCode != 200) {
      throw new RuntimeException("Response code was not 200. Detected response was "+responseCode);
    }

    String output;
    Reader reader = null;
    try {
      reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response, "UTF-8"));
      StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
      char[] buffer = new char[8192];
      int read;
      while ((read = reader.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length)) > 0) {
        builder.append(buffer, 0, read);
      }
      output = builder.toString();
    } 
    finally {
        if (reader != null) try {
          reader.close(); 
        } catch (IOException logOrIgnore) {
          logOrIgnore.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    System.out.println(output);
  }
}


library(httr)
library(jsonlite)
library(xml2)

server <- "https://jan2020.rest.ensembl.org"
ext <- "/variant_recoder/human/rs56116432?"

r <- GET(paste(server, ext, sep = ""), content_type("application/json"))

stop_for_status(r)

# use this if you get a simple nested list back, otherwise inspect its structure
# head(data.frame(t(sapply(content(r),c))))
head(fromJSON(toJSON(content(r))))



curl 'https://jan2020.rest.ensembl.org/variant_recoder/human/rs56116432?' -H 'Content-type:application/json'


wget -q --header='Content-type:application/json' 'https://jan2020.rest.ensembl.org/variant_recoder/human/rs56116432?'  -O -

/variant_recoder/human/ENST00000366667:c.803C>T?content-type=application/json


use strict;
use warnings;

use HTTP::Tiny;

my $http = HTTP::Tiny->new();

my $server = 'https://jan2020.rest.ensembl.org';
my $ext = '/variant_recoder/human/ENST00000366667:c.803C%3ET?';
my $response = $http->get($server.$ext, {
  headers => { 'Content-type' => 'application/json' }
});

die "Failed!\n" unless $response->{success};


use JSON;
use Data::Dumper;
if(length $response->{content}) {
  my $hash = decode_json($response->{content});
  local $Data::Dumper::Terse = 1;
  local $Data::Dumper::Indent = 1;
  print Dumper $hash;
  print "\n";
}


import requests, sys

server = "https://jan2020.rest.ensembl.org"
ext = "/variant_recoder/human/ENST00000366667:c.803C>T?"

r = requests.get(server+ext, headers={ "Content-Type" : "application/json"})

if not r.ok:
  r.raise_for_status()
  sys.exit()

decoded = r.json()
print repr(decoded)


import requests, sys

server = "https://jan2020.rest.ensembl.org"
ext = "/variant_recoder/human/ENST00000366667:c.803C>T?"

r = requests.get(server+ext, headers={ "Content-Type" : "application/json"})

if not r.ok:
  r.raise_for_status()
  sys.exit()

decoded = r.json()
print(repr(decoded))


require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

server='https://jan2020.rest.ensembl.org'
path = '/variant_recoder/human/ENST00000366667:c.803C%3ET?'

url = URI.parse(server)
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(path, {'Content-Type' => 'application/json'})

response = http.request(request)

if response.code != "200"
  puts "Invalid response: #{response.code}"
  puts response.body
  exit
end


require 'rubygems'
require 'json'
require 'yaml'

result = JSON.parse(response.body)
puts YAML::dump(result)


import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;


public class EnsemblRest {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    String server = "https://jan2020.rest.ensembl.org";
    String ext = "/variant_recoder/human/ENST00000366667:c.803C%3ET?";
    URL url = new URL(server + ext);

    URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
    HttpURLConnection httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection)connection;
    
    httpConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
    

    InputStream response = connection.getInputStream();
    int responseCode = httpConnection.getResponseCode();

    if(responseCode != 200) {
      throw new RuntimeException("Response code was not 200. Detected response was "+responseCode);
    }

    String output;
    Reader reader = null;
    try {
      reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response, "UTF-8"));
      StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
      char[] buffer = new char[8192];
      int read;
      while ((read = reader.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length)) > 0) {
        builder.append(buffer, 0, read);
      }
      output = builder.toString();
    } 
    finally {
        if (reader != null) try {
          reader.close(); 
        } catch (IOException logOrIgnore) {
          logOrIgnore.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    System.out.println(output);
  }
}


library(httr)
library(jsonlite)
library(xml2)

server <- "https://jan2020.rest.ensembl.org"
ext <- "/variant_recoder/human/ENST00000366667:c.803C>T?"

r <- GET(paste(server, ext, sep = ""), content_type("application/json"))

stop_for_status(r)

# use this if you get a simple nested list back, otherwise inspect its structure
# head(data.frame(t(sapply(content(r),c))))
head(fromJSON(toJSON(content(r))))



curl 'https://jan2020.rest.ensembl.org/variant_recoder/human/ENST00000366667:c.803C%3ET?' -H 'Content-type:application/json'


wget -q --header='Content-type:application/json' 'https://jan2020.rest.ensembl.org/variant_recoder/human/ENST00000366667:c.803C>T?'  -O -

Resource Information

MethodsGET
Response formatsjson
xml
jsonp