Research & Grey LiteratureDatasetNewAdded 2026-11-13

European Variation Archive (EVA) REST API

Genetic variants and studies across many species, via keyless REST APIs

Freeauth: noneCustom✓ verified Nov 13, 2026

Free?: FreeFree keyless REST APIs.
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Commercial use?: Read the termsProvider's own terms, not a standard licence

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License note: Custom: EMBL-EBI adds no restriction beyond each data owner's terms. Some submitted studies carry their own conditions; check study-level terms. Signal Lab links only.
Required attribution: Expected by EMBL-EBI: credit EVA.

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// Overview

European Variation Archive (EVA) REST API

The European Variation Archive, EMBL-EBI's open archive of genetic variation (SNPs, indels, structural variants) across many species, offers keyless REST APIs for studies, files and variants.

Coverage

Genetic variants and studies across many species, via keyless REST APIs.

Good for

#research-grey-literature#genomics#genetic-variation#api

Verdict

A variant-lookup source for genomics pipelines, alongside ensembl-rest-api. Licence: Custom: EMBL-EBI's Terms of Use say "Where EMBL-EBI presents scientific data generated by others, EMBL-EBI imposes no additional restriction on the use of the contributed data than those provided by the data owner, unless otherwise specified in these Terms of Use." Some submitted studies carry their own provider or country-of-origin conditions, so check study-level terms. Rate limits: the EVA help says "please limit Variant Region API request rates to 5 requests/second." Signal Lab links only.

// Limits

Free limits & license

Price	Free
Auth	none
Free tier	Free keyless REST APIs.
Rate limit	Variant Region API: up to 5 requests per second (EVA help).
License	Custom (see note)
License note	Custom: EMBL-EBI adds no restriction beyond each data owner's terms. Some submitted studies carry their own conditions; check study-level terms. Signal Lab links only.
Last verified	Nov 13, 2026

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// Full record · catalog.json

name: European Variation Archive (EVA) REST API
slug: eva-variation-archive-api
category: Research & Grey Literature
domain: Research & Grey Literature
type: Dataset
sitePageUrl: https://signal-lab.qdt.ai/datasets/eva-variation-archive-api
providerUrl: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/eva/?API
badge: Free
auth: none
freeTierLimits: Free keyless REST APIs.
rateLimits: Variant Region API: up to 5 requests per second (EVA help).
docsUrl: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/eva/?API
coverage: Genetic variants and studies across many species, via keyless REST APIs.
lastVerified: 2026-11-13
evidenceUrls: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/eva/?API
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/eva/webservices/release/v1/info/latest
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/terms-of-use/
tasks: research-grey-literature
genomics
genetic-variation
api
license: Custom
licenseUrl: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/terms-of-use/
licenseNote: Custom: EMBL-EBI adds no restriction beyond each data owner's terms. Some submitted studies carry their own conditions; check study-level terms. Signal Lab links only.
attribution: Expected by EMBL-EBI: credit EVA.

// The same record over MCP

Request · get_entry

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_entry",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "eva-variation-archive-api"
    }
  }
}

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// The same record over MCP

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