# DNAnexus Platform API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/dnanexus/dnanexus-platform-api/  
**Provider:** DNAnexus — https://apis.io/providers/dnanexus/  
**Base URL:** https://api.dnanexus.com  
**Documentation:** https://documentation.dnanexus.com/developer/api

DNAnexus Platform API is one of 2 APIs that [DNAnexus](https://apis.io/providers/dnanexus/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Genomics, Bioinformatics, Data Management, Workflow Orchestration, and Cloud Storage. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, authentication docs, and rate-limit docs.

The DNAnexus Platform API is a JSON-over-HTTPS API of roughly 206 documented methods. Each method is invoked with an HTTP POST to a route of the form /class-xxxx/method (for example /file-xxxx/describe) or /system/method (for example /system/findDataObjects), with a JSON request body and a JSON response body. Method families cover data containers and projects, data objects (files, records, databases, drives, dbclusters), data-object metadata, apps, applets, workflows, global workflows, jobs, analyses and execution containers, search, organizations, users, OIDC clients, the Omics Data Catalog, and Trusted Research Environments.

## Machine-readable artifacts (8)

- **Documentation** — https://documentation.dnanexus.com/developer/api
- **APIReference** — https://documentation.dnanexus.com/developer/api/api-directory
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dnanexus/refs/heads/main/authentication/dnanexus-authentication.yml
- **RateLimits** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dnanexus/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/dnanexus-rate-limits.yml
- **ErrorCatalog** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dnanexus/refs/heads/main/errors/dnanexus-problem-types.yml
- **Conventions** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dnanexus/refs/heads/main/conventions/dnanexus-conventions.yml
- **DataModel** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dnanexus/refs/heads/main/data-model/dnanexus-data-model.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dnanexus/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other DNAnexus APIs (1)

- [DNAnexus OpenID Connect Provider](https://apis.io/apis/dnanexus/dnanexus-openid-connect-provider/)

## Tags

Genomics, Bioinformatics, Data Management, Workflow Orchestration, Cloud Storage

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/dnanexus/dnanexus-platform-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/dnanexus/.