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Do you work with human genetic variants? Have you sought out relevant publications, clinically significant evidence, and\/or publicly available data? Are you ready to contribute to the scientific and patient-care community by sharing your own research output?<\/p>\n

You likely already know about and use ClinVar<\/a>, the go-to resource for the clinical genetics community that aggregates information about genomic variation and its relationship to human health. ClinVar recently reached the significant milestone of including 1 million unique variants<\/a> in its database. Over 1,800 organizations from 82 countries have submitted almost 1.5 million records in ClinVar, including more than 11,000 curated variants from 14 expert panels.<\/p>\n

Now it is easier than ever to reciprocate and be a supportive community member by submitting your human genetic variant data using the new ClinVar Submission API<\/a>. The workflow for submissions is fast and automated, thanks to a RESTful API<\/a>\u2014a particular architectural style for an application program interface (API) allowing two software programs to communicate with each other to access and use data.<\/p>\n

There are three one-time activities for the ClinVar Submission API setup:<\/p>\n