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GET /v1/region

Features overlapping a region

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/ensembl-api/v1/region" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/ensembl-api/v1/region", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/ensembl-api/v1/region");
curl_setopt($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/ensembl-api/v1/region",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

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

{
    "data": {
        "count": 3,
        "region": "17:43044295-43125483",
        "feature": "gene",
        "species": "human",
        "features": [
            {
                "id": "ENSG00000240828",
                "end": 43079780,
                "name": "RPL21P4",
                "start": 43079302,
                "source": "havana",
                "strand": 1,
                "biotype": "processed_pseudogene",
                "consequence_type": null
            },
            {
                "id": "ENSG00000198496",
                "end": 43153671,
                "name": "NBR2",
                "start": 43125420,
                "source": "havana",
                "strand": 1,
                "biotype": "lncRNA",
                "consequence_type": null
            },
            {
                "id": "ENSG00000012048",
                "end": 43170245,
                "name": "BRCA1",
                "start": 43044292,
                "source": "ensembl_havana",
                "strand": -1,
                "biotype": "protein_coding",
                "consequence_type": null
            }
        ]
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-01T08:14:16.860Z",
        "request_id": "08fe80db-8e8e-4b5c-a149-28b01422faa9"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Region features retrieved",
    "success": true
}