Cortexa research tool·genomics·cellxgene_discovery

CxGDisc Search Datasets

Search CellxGene Discovery single-cell RNA-seq datasets by tissue, disease, organism, or cell type. The platform hosts 2,000+ datasets with detailed cell-type annotations. Supports flexible text-based filtering: 'lung' returns 134 lung datasets, 'brain' returns 144, 'T cell' returns 667, 'cancer' returns 193. Results sorted by cell count (largest first).

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 113msCortexa

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 113ms

Schema

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

{
  "properties": {
    "cell_type": {
      "description": "Filter by cell type (e.g., 'T cell', 'neuron', 'macrophage', 'epithelial'). Case-insensitive partial match.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "disease": {
      "description": "Filter by disease (e.g., 'cancer', 'COVID', 'Alzheimer', 'normal'). Case-insensitive partial match.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "limit": {
      "description": "Maximum datasets to return (1-100). Default: 20.",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "organism": {
      "description": "Filter by organism (e.g., 'Homo sapiens', 'Mus musculus'). Case-insensitive partial match.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "tissue": {
      "description": "Filter by tissue name (e.g., 'lung', 'brain', 'heart', 'kidney', 'liver'). Case-insensitive partial match.",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default CxGDisc Search Datasets call

public-safeinput

{
  "disease": "type 2 diabetes",
  "limit": 3
}

Expected response keys: success

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

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_CxGDisc_search_datasets
Tool name: CxGDisc_search_datasets
Added: 2026-04-30 22:47Z
Tags: tooluniverse

CxGDisc Search Datasets

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 113msCortexa

Schema

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

{ "properties": { "cell_type": { "description": "Filter by cell type (e.g., 'T cell', 'neuron', 'macrophage', 'epithelial'). Case-insensitive partial match.", "type": "string" }, "disease": { "description": "Filter by disease (e.g., 'cancer', 'COVID', 'Alzheimer', 'normal'). Case-insensitive partial match.", "type": "string" }, "limit": { "description": "Maximum datasets to return (1-100). Default: 20.", "type": "integer" }, "organism": { "description": "Filter by organism (e.g., 'Homo sapiens', 'Mus musculus'). Case-insensitive partial match.", "type": "string" }, "tissue": { "description": "Filter by tissue name (e.g., 'lung', 'brain', 'heart', 'kidney', 'liver'). Case-insensitive partial match.", "type": "string" } }, "required": [], "type": "object" }