# UCSC Genome Browser REST API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/ucsc-genome-browser-rest-api/  
**Provider:** Life Sciences — https://apis.io/providers/life-sciences/  
**Base URL:** https://api.genome.ucsc.edu/  
**Documentation:** https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/api.html

UCSC Genome Browser REST API is one of 22 APIs that [Life Sciences](https://apis.io/providers/life-sciences/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Genomics, Reference Genome, UCSC, and Tracks. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The University of California Santa Cruz Genome Browser's REST API for programmatic retrieval of assemblies, tracks, sequences, and annotations across the genomes hosted in the UCSC Browser, including human (hg19, hg38, T2T-CHM13), mouse, and many other species.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Documentation** — https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/api.html

## Other Life Sciences APIs (12)

- [EU Clinical Trials Register / CTIS](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/eu-clinical-trials-register-ctis/)
- [openFDA](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/openfda/)
- [DailyMed](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/dailymed/)
- [RxNorm API](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/rxnorm-api/)
- [DrugBank API](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/drugbank-api/)
- [NCBI Entrez E-utilities](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/ncbi-entrez-e-utilities/)
- [Ensembl REST API](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/ensembl-rest-api/)
- [ClinVar (via E-utilities)](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/clinvar-via-e-utilities/)
- [dbSNP (via E-utilities)](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/dbsnp-via-e-utilities/)
- [HL7 FHIR](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/hl7-fhir/)
- [SMART on FHIR](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/smart-on-fhir/)
- [Benchling Developer Platform](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/benchling-developer-platform/)

## Tags

Genomics, Reference Genome, UCSC, Tracks

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