HPO Search Terms
Search for Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) terms by keyword. HPO contains over 18,000 standardized phenotype terms used in clinical genetics and rare disease research. Returns matching terms with definitions, synonym counts, and descendant counts. Useful for finding the correct HPO ID for a clinical phenotype before querying disease or gene associations. Example: searching 'seizure' returns terms like 'Bilateral tonic-clonic seizure' (HP:0007334), 'Generalized-onset seizure' (HP:0002197), 'Focal…
Overview
Search for Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) terms by keyword. HPO contains over 18,000 standardized phenotype terms used in clinical genetics and rare disease research. Returns matching terms with definitions, synonym counts, and descendant counts. Useful for finding the correct HPO ID for a clinical phenotype before querying disease or gene associations. Example: searching 'seizure' returns terms like 'Bilateral tonic-clonic seizure' (HP:0007334), 'Generalized-onset seizure' (HP:0002197), 'Focal-onset seizure' (HP:0007359).
Status
The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.
- Last probed
- 1d ago
- Last success
- 1d ago
- Last latency
- 94ms
Schema
JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.
{
"properties": {
"max_results": {
"description": "Maximum number of results to return (default 10, max 50).",
"type": [
"integer",
"null"
]
},
"query": {
"description": "Search keyword for phenotype terms. Examples: 'seizure', 'intellectual disability', 'cardiomyopathy', 'scoliosis', 'microcephaly'.",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"query"
],
"type": "object"
}Examples (1)
Default HPO Search Terms call
{
"query": "BRCA1"
}Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.
Identifiers
- Catalog ID
- tu_HPO_search_terms
- Tool name
- HPO_search_terms
- Added
- 2026-04-30 22:47Z
- Tags
- tooluniverse