STRING Map Identifiers

Overview

Map protein identifiers to STRING (Search Tool for Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins) database IDs. Essential first step before using other STRING tools - converts your protein names (gene symbols, UniProt IDs, Ensembl IDs) to STRING's internal identifiers. STRING database contains 14M+ proteins from 5,000+ organisms with functional association networks. No API key required (public API with rate limits). Use for: preparing protein lists for network analysis, converting between identifier types, validating protein names exist in STRING, batch identifier conversion.

Status

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

Last probed

1d ago

Last success

1d ago

Last latency

92ms

Schema

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

{
  "properties": {
    "echo_query": {
      "default": 1,
      "description": "Include query identifier in response (1=yes, 0=no, default: 1)",
      "enum": [
        0,
        1
      ],
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "limit": {
      "default": 1,
      "description": "Maximum number of matches per identifier (default: 1)",
      "maximum": 10,
      "minimum": 1,
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "protein_ids": {
      "description": "List of protein identifiers to map (UniProt IDs, gene names, Ensembl IDs, RefSeq IDs)",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "minItems": 1,
      "type": "array"
    },
    "species": {
      "default": 9606,
      "description": "NCBI taxonomy ID (default: 9606 for human, 10090 for mouse)",
      "type": "integer"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "protein_ids"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

{
  "echo_query": 1,
  "limit": 3,
  "protein_ids": [],
  "species": 1
}

Identifiers

Catalog ID

tu_STRING_map_identifiers

Tool name

STRING_map_identifiers

Added

2026-04-30 22:47Z

Tags

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