CoV-Spectrum LAPIS API

Name: CoV-Spectrum LAPIS API
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For Agents

Query SARS-CoV-2 sequence data, mutations, insertions, phylogenetic subtrees, and sample metadata from the open CoV-Spectrum LAPIS backend with no authentication.

Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the CoV-Spectrum LAPIS API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the CoV-Spectrum LAPIS API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with CoV-Spectrum LAPIS API.

Retrieve aligned or unaligned nucleotide sequences for filtered samples

Retrieve aligned amino acid sequences across all genes or by specific gene

Pull nucleotide and amino acid mutations and insertions as CSV or JSON

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The CoV-Spectrum LAPIS API is the open data backend behind cov-spectrum.org, exposing 40 endpoints for querying SARS-CoV-2 sequence and metadata aggregates. Endpoints cover aligned and unaligned nucleotide sequences, aligned amino acid sequences per gene, nucleotide and amino acid mutations and insertions, phylogenetic subtrees, most-recent common ancestor lookups, sample details and aggregations, and a generic /query/parse helper. The base URL is the open v2 LAPIS endpoint and no authentication is required, making it suitable for public health dashboards, research pipelines, and academic agents that need bulk SARS-CoV-2 surveillance data.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use CoV-Spectrum LAPIS API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Variant Surveillance Dashboard

Power a public-facing or institutional SARS-CoV-2 variant tracker that shows lineage prevalence over time and geography. The /sample/aggregated endpoint returns counts grouped by date, country, or lineage, which is the core query a surveillance dashboard runs every few hours. Because the API is open, dashboards can run client-side without a credential proxy.

Call POST /sample/aggregated with a filter on country and a groupBy of pangoLineage and date to refresh a variant prevalence chart

Genomic Research Pipeline

Pull aligned nucleotide and amino acid sequences for a defined sample cohort into a downstream phylogenetics or mutation-analysis pipeline. /sample/alignedNucleotideSequences returns the aligned sequences and /sample/alignedAminoAcidSequences/{gene} narrows to a specific gene such as Spike. Together with /sample/nucleotideMutations and /sample/aminoAcidMutations, an agent can prepare a clean dataset for analysis without manual export.

Call GET /sample/alignedAminoAcidSequences/S filtered to a date range, then GET /sample/aminoAcidMutations to pull the mutation set for the same cohort

Phylogenetic Context Lookup

Place a sample or set of samples in their phylogenetic context by fetching a Newick subtree or the most recent common ancestor. /sample/phyloSubtree returns Newick text suitable for visualisation libraries, and /sample/mostRecentCommonAncestor returns the MRCA for a query selection. Useful for researchers writing case reports or evolutionary analyses.

Call POST /sample/phyloSubtree with a country and lineage filter, then render the returned Newick string in a tree viewer

AI Agent Public Health Q&A

Let an AI agent answer epidemiological questions like 'how prevalent is XBB in Switzerland' by calling LAPIS through Jentic. The agent searches by intent, executes the matching aggregate or details query, and returns structured counts. Because LAPIS is open, no credential is needed but Jentic still standardises the request shape and response handling.

Use Jentic to search 'aggregate SARS-CoV-2 sample counts', load the schema for POST /sample/aggregated, and execute it with country and lineage filters

Key Endpoints

40 endpoints — the cov-spectrum lapis api is the open data backend behind cov-spectrum.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

POST

/sample/aggregated

Aggregate sample counts grouped by fields

GET

/sample/details

List per-sample metadata for a filtered cohort

POST

/sample/nucleotideMutations

Get nucleotide mutations for a cohort

POST

/sample/aminoAcidMutations

Get amino acid mutations for a cohort

POST

/sample/alignedNucleotideSequences

Fetch aligned nucleotide sequences

GET

/sample/alignedAminoAcidSequences/{gene}

Fetch aligned amino acid sequences for a gene

POST

/sample/phyloSubtree

Get a phylogenetic subtree as Newick

POST

/sample/mostRecentCommonAncestor

Get the MRCA for a sample selection

POST

/sample/aggregated

Aggregate sample counts grouped by fields

GET

/sample/details

List per-sample metadata for a filtered cohort

POST

/sample/nucleotideMutations

Get nucleotide mutations for a cohort

POST

/sample/aminoAcidMutations

Get amino acid mutations for a cohort

POST

/sample/alignedNucleotideSequences

Fetch aligned nucleotide sequences

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

The CoV-Spectrum open API takes no credential to call; Jentic still runs it through your own Jentic One instance so nothing sensitive enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'aggregate SARS-CoV-2 samples by variant' or 'list nucleotide mutations', and Jentic returns the matching CoV-Spectrum operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

Time to first call

FAQs

Specific to using CoV-Spectrum LAPIS API through Jentic.

What authentication does the CoV-Spectrum LAPIS API use?

The open LAPIS endpoint at https://lapis.cov-spectrum.org/open/v2 requires no authentication. All 40 endpoints are publicly accessible. When called via Jentic, no credential is provisioned for this API.

Can I download aligned amino acid sequences for a specific gene?

Yes. GET /sample/alignedAminoAcidSequences/{gene} returns aligned amino acid sequences for the specified gene, for example /sample/alignedAminoAcidSequences/S for the Spike gene. Filter parameters narrow the cohort by date, country, or lineage.

How do I aggregate sample counts by lineage?

POST /sample/aggregated with a `groupBy` parameter listing fields such as `pangoLineage` and `date`. The response is a JSON array of grouped counts, suitable for variant prevalence dashboards.

What are the rate limits for the LAPIS API?

The open LAPIS instance is provided as a public research utility and does not advertise hard rate limits. Heavy users (large bulk sequence pulls or repeated multi-million-row aggregations) should batch requests and cache results to remain a good citizen on shared infrastructure.

How do I get a phylogenetic subtree through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'get a SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic subtree', load the schema for POST /sample/phyloSubtree, and execute it with country and lineage filters. The response is a Newick string ready for tree-viewer libraries.

Does the API include patient-level clinical data?

No. LAPIS exposes anonymised genomic and metadata fields like collection date, country, and lineage. It does not include patient identifiers, hospital outcomes, or individual case clinical data.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the CoV-Spectrum LAPIS API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which CoV-Spectrum operations the agent may call, and LAPIS is a read-only query surface with no resource id in the URL, so you scope access by operation. You can allow only the operations the agent needs, such as POST /sample/aggregated for grouped sample counts or POST /sample/nucleotideMutations, and leave sequence pulls like POST /sample/alignedNucleotideSequences or the phylogenetic operations out of reach. Any operation you do not grant is not callable, so the agent stays inside the set you approve.

CoV-Spectrum LAPIS API

Connect the CoV-Spectrum LAPIS API to your agent

Capabilities

Start building with CoV-Spectrum LAPIS API

Use Cases

Key Endpoints

Why Jentic?

Related APIs

FAQs