Analysis

Search the web

Search the live web (via Tavily) for information not covered by SeqBench's own tools — recent literature, protocols, vendor/reagent info, general facts. Returns a short synthesized answer (if available) plus ranked source snippets with URLs. This does not run any bioinformatics calculation itself; use the dedicated tools for that.

post/web_search

Request

  • Base URL: https://seqbench.com/api/v1
  • URL: https://seqbench.com/api/v1/web_search
  • Auth: none required

Request body

querystring required

The search query.

max_resultsnumber

Maximum number of results to return (default 5, max 10).

Response

Tool ran successfully.

okunknown required
toolstring required

The tool slug that ran.

resultobject required

Tool-specific output object. Its shape depends on the tool — call GET /{tool} or see the docs for each tool's fields.

Example response

{
  "provenance": {
    "apiVersion": "1.1.0"
  }
}

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.