Life Sciences

GA4GH APIs (htsget, DRS, WES, TES, Beacon)

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health publishes a suite of open REST specifications enabling federated access to genomic data and compute. Includes htsget (sequencing reads), DRS (Data Repository Service), WES (Workflow Execution Service), TES (Task Execution Service), and the Beacon variant-discovery protocol.

GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation
https://www.ga4gh.org/genomic-data-toolkit/

SDKs

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GitHubRepository
https://github.com/ga4gh

Other Resources

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Specification
htsget specification
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Specification
Beacon specification

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
name: GA4GH APIs (htsget, DRS, WES, TES, Beacon)
description: The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health publishes a suite of open REST specifications
  enabling federated access to genomic data and compute. Includes htsget (sequencing reads), DRS (Data
  Repository Service), WES (Workflow Execution Service), TES (Task Execution Service), and the Beacon
  variant-discovery protocol.
humanURL: https://www.ga4gh.org/genomic-data-toolkit/
baseURL: https://www.ga4gh.org/
tags:
- Genomics
- Standard
- GA4GH
- Federated
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.ga4gh.org/genomic-data-toolkit/
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/ga4gh
- type: Specification
  url: https://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/htsget.html
  title: htsget specification
- type: Specification
  url: https://ga4gh.github.io/beacon/
  title: Beacon specification