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MGnify API boundary

Official-source access, authentication, request-shaping, freshness, legal, and interpretation boundaries for MGnify API.

version 1.0.0freshness currentobserved 2026-08-28T15:06:26Z

resource.public-data.mgnify-api
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Evidence-backed facts

  1. MGnify API v2 exposes public metagenomic studies, samples, analyses, assemblies, genomes, taxonomic and functional results, pipelines, and supporting metadata. informative
  2. Most public reads require no authentication, while private data access uses ENA Webin tokens that must never be stored in public resources or logs. informative
  3. Clients must bind resource, identifier, biome, taxon, pipeline version, filters, included relationships, fields, sorting, cursor paging, and supported JSON representations. informative
  4. Metagenomic outputs depend on sampling, sequencing, reference databases, pipelines, contamination controls, and release versions and do not prove organism viability or clinical meaning. informative

Primary sources

MGnify API v2

European Bioinformatics Institute · observed 2026-08-28T15:06:26Z