hisplan/ensembl-rest-service-via-curl.md

## ensembl-rest-service-via-curl.md

      
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    Ensembl REST Service

https://rest.ensembl.org/
ID Lookup

https://rest.ensembl.org/documentation/info/lookup
curl -H 'Content-type:application/json' -sS 'https://rest.ensembl.org/lookup/id/ENSG00000237989?' | jq
{
  "description": "long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 1679 [Source:HGNC Symbol;Acc:HGNC:52469]",
  "strand": -1,
  "version": 1,
  "seq_region_name": "21",
  "object_type": "Gene",
  "end": 43362349,
  "id": "ENSG00000237989",
  "species": "homo_sapiens",
  "logic_name": "havana_homo_sapiens",
  "source": "havana",
  "start": 43358147,
  "biotype": "lncRNA",
  "assembly_name": "GRCh38",
  "display_name": "LINC01679",
  "db_type": "core"
}
Get Sequence

https://rest.ensembl.org/documentation/info/sequence_id
curl -H 'Content-type:text/plain' -sS 'https://rest.ensembl.org/sequence/id/ENSG00000157764?'
TTCCCCCAATCCCCTCAGGCTCGGCTGCGCCCGGGGC...