searchInterPro

Free-text / keyword search of InterPro and its member-database signatures. Use this as the entry point when you don’t have an accession, e.g. “zinc finger”, “kinase domain”, “cytochrome c”. Follow up with getEntry for full details of a hit.

Arguments

Name	Type	Required	Description
query	string	yes	Free-text query, e.g. zinc finger. Field syntax is allowed, e.g. kinase AND type:domain.
type	string	no	Entry-type filter, appended as AND type:<type>. One of family, domain, homologous_superfamily, repeat, conserved_site, binding_site, active_site, ptm.
size	integer	no	Max results to return. Default 10, max 100.

Returns

The native EBI Search JSON response: a hitCount and an entries array. Each entry has an id (the accession) and a fields object with name, type, description and source_database.

{
  "hitCount": 42,
  "entries": [
    {
      "id": "IPR000001",
      "fields": {
        "name": ["Kringle"],
        "type": ["domain"],
        "source_database": ["INTERPRO"]
      }
    }
  ]
}

Examples

• query="zinc finger": candidate zinc-finger families and domains.

• query="kinase", type="domain": restrict to entries typed as domains.

• query="cytochrome c", size=5: the top five cytochrome c hits.