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GET /v1/search

Search cell lines

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api.oanor.com/cellosaurus-api

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/cellosaurus-api/v1/search" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/cellosaurus-api/v1/search", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/cellosaurus-api/v1/search");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/cellosaurus-api/v1/search",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "count": 20,
        "query": "HeLa",
        "cell_lines": [
            {
                "name": "HeLa",
                "disease": [
                    "Human papillomavirus-related endocervical adenocarcinoma"
                ],
                "species": [
                    "Homo sapiens (Human)"
                ],
                "category": "Cancer cell line",
                "accession": "CVCL_0030"
            },
            {
                "name": "HeLa 229",
                "disease": [
                    "Human papillomavirus-related endocervical adenocarcinoma"
                ],
                "species": [
                    "Homo sapiens (Human)"
                ],
                "category": "Cancer cell line",
                "accession": "CVCL_1276"
            },
            {
                "name": "HeLa 292",
                "disease": [
                    "Human papillomavirus-related endocervical adenocarcinoma"
                ],
                "species": [
                    "Homo sapiens (Human)"
                ],
                "category": "Cancer cell line",
                "accession": "CVCL_WH96"
            },
            {
                "name": "HeLa 382",
                "disease": [
                    "Human papillomavirus-related endocervical adenocarcinoma"
                ],
                "species": [
                    "Homo sapiens (Human)"
                ],
                "category": "Cancer cell line",
                "accession": "CVCL_3379"
            },
            {
                "name": "HeLa 422",
                "disease": [
                    "Human papillomavirus-related endocervical adenocarcinoma"
                ],
                "species": [
                    "Homo sapiens (Human)"
                ],
                "category": "Cancer cell line",
                "accession": "CVCL_3380"
            },
            {
                "name": "HeLa 432",
                "disease": [
                    "Human papillomavirus-related endocervical adenocarcinoma"
                ],
                "species": [
                    "Homo sapiens (Human)"
                ],
                "category": "Cancer cell line",
                "accession": "CVCL_3381"
            },
            {
                "name": "HeLa AG",
                "disease": [
                    "Human papillomavirus-related endocervical adenocarcinoma"
                ],
                "species": [
                    "Homo sapiens (Human)"
                ],
                "category": "Cancer cell line",
                "accession": "CVCL_2933"
            },
            {
                "name": "HeLa B",
                "disease": [
                    "Human papillomavirus-related endocervical adenocarcinoma"
                ],
                "species": [
                    "Homo sapiens (Human)"
                ],
                "category": "Cancer cell line",
 
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