Ensembl Get Region Features

Overview

Get all genomic features overlapping a specified chromosomal region. Returns genes, transcripts, regulatory elements, constrained elements, and other features within the coordinates. Essential for understanding the functional landscape of a genomic region, finding genes near a variant, or identifying regulatory elements in a locus. Supports multiple feature types in one query. Example: region '7:140424943-140524564' (BRAF locus) returns 5 genes, 20 regulatory elements, and 82 constrained elements; region '17:7661779-7687546' (TP53 locus) returns genes, enhancers, CTCF binding sites, and promoters.

Status

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

Last probed

1d ago

Last success

1d ago

Last latency

96ms

Schema

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

{
  "properties": {
    "feature_types": {
      "description": "Comma-separated feature types to retrieve. Options: 'gene', 'transcript', 'regulatory', 'constrained', 'variation', 'repeat', 'motif'. Default: 'gene'. Example: 'gene,regulatory,constrained'.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "region": {
      "description": "Genomic region in format 'chr:start-end'. Examples: '17:7661779-7687546' (TP53), '7:140424943-140524564' (BRAF), '13:32315086-32400266' (BRCA2). Max region size ~5Mb.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "species": {
      "description": "Species name. Default: 'human'. Examples: 'human', 'mouse', 'rat', 'zebrafish'.",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "region"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

{
  "region": ""
}

Identifiers

Catalog ID

tu_Ensembl_get_region_features

Tool name

Ensembl_get_region_features

Added

2026-05-01 00:58Z

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