Cortexa research tool·genomics·alliance_genome

Alliance Search Genes

Search for genes across all model organisms in the Alliance of Genome Resources. Searches by gene symbol, name, or keyword and returns matching genes from human, mouse, rat, zebrafish, fly, worm, yeast, and frog databases. Provides type-ahead suggestions. Example: 'insulin' returns INS (human), Ins1/Ins2 (mouse), ins (zebrafish), etc.

Slowlast probed 2026-05-01 01:00Z· 11512msCortexa

Status

Succeeds, but routinely takes more than 8 seconds. Hidden from the agent's default toolset; available via opt-in.

Note: Latency 11512ms > 8000ms threshold

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 11512ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "description": "Maximum number of results to return (1-50). Default: 10.",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "query": {
      "description": "Gene name, symbol, or keyword to search for. Examples: 'insulin', 'tumor protein p53', 'hedgehog', 'notch'.",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default Alliance Search Genes call

public-safeinput

{
  "limit": 3,
  "query": "BRCA1"
}

Expected response keys: success

Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_Alliance_search_genes
Tool name: Alliance_search_genes
Added: 2026-05-01 00:58Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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