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PharmacoDB Get Cell Line

Get detailed information about a cancer cell line from PharmacoDB, including tissue of origin, disease annotations, dataset-specific synonyms, and accession IDs. Look up by cell line name or PharmacoDB cell ID. PharmacoDB harmonizes cell line identifiers across 10 pharmacogenomics datasets. Example: get details for MCF-7 breast cancer or A549 lung cancer cell line.

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 114msCortexa

Status

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

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 114ms

Schema

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

{
  "properties": {
    "cell_id": {
      "description": "PharmacoDB cell line database ID (e.g., 273 for MCF-7). Mutually exclusive with cell_name.",
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "cell_name": {
      "description": "Cell line name (e.g., 'MCF-7', 'A549', 'HeLa'). Mutually exclusive with cell_id.",
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "operation": {
      "description": "Operation type",
      "enum": [
        "get_cell_line"
      ],
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "operation"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default PharmacoDB Get Cell Line call

public-safeinput

{
  "operation": ""
}

Expected response keys: success

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

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_PharmacoDB_get_cell_line
Tool name: PharmacoDB_get_cell_line
Added: 2026-04-30 22:47Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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