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GA4GH API

This is the documentation for the GA4GH API.

Contents

• Introduction
  • Why use this web API?
  • If you need background
  • The GA4GH web API
  • Schemas and formats
• API Overview
  • API Design
  • API Goals
  • Reads
  • Variants
  • References
  • Metadata
• Schemas
  • Common
  • Metadata
  • RPC
  • ReadMethods
  • Reads
  • ReferenceMethods
  • References
  • VariantMethods
  • Variants
• Appendix
  • Apache Avro
  • Glossary
  • The JSON Format