# EPFL GETprime qPCR Primer API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/epfl/getprime/  
**Provider:** EPFL — https://apis.io/providers/epfl/  
**Base URL:** https://getprime.epfl.ch/  
**Documentation:** https://getprime.epfl.ch/

EPFL GETprime qPCR Primer API is one of 9 APIs that [EPFL](https://apis.io/providers/epfl/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Research, Bioinformatics, and Genomics. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

GETprime is a public, unauthenticated HTTP service from EPFL's Gene Expression Core Facility that returns ranked, validated qPCR primer pairs for a gene identifier, organism and Ensembl release. It is documented by EPFL at /api_documentation and was verified live on 2026-08-19 with a successful POST. Recorded here because it is the kind of surface this catalog usually misses: a real, institution-operated research API that lives outside the news/events/repository estate. One correction to the published documentation — the documented JSON request body returns HTTP 500 against the live service; application/x-www-form-urlencoded succeeds.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://getprime.epfl.ch/api_documentation
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/epfl/refs/heads/main/openapi/epfl-getprime-api-openapi.yml
- **Website** — https://www.epfl.ch/research/facilities/gene-expression-core-facility/

## Other EPFL APIs (8)

- [EPFL Actu News API](https://apis.io/apis/epfl/actu-news-api/)
- [EPFL Memento Events API](https://apis.io/apis/epfl/memento-events-api/)
- [EPFL Infoscience Institutional Repository](https://apis.io/apis/epfl/infoscience/)
- [EPFL Graph Search](https://apis.io/apis/epfl/graphsearch/)
- [EPFL go.epfl.ch URL Shortener API](https://apis.io/apis/epfl/go-url-shortener/)
- [EPFL SAML Identity Federation Entities](https://apis.io/apis/epfl/identity-federation/)
- [EPFL Identity Provider (SWITCH edu-ID, tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/epfl/eduid-idp/)
- [EPFL Library Discovery on swisscovery (Ex Libris, tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/epfl/swisscovery-library/)

## Tags

Research, Bioinformatics, Genomics

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