string_functional_annotation
STRING: Retrieve functional annotations for proteins
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This tool retrieves curated functional annotations for a set of proteins.
Each input protein is mapped to known biological terms from ontologies, pathway databases, tissues, compartments and domains — such as Gene Ontology (GO), KEGG, and UniProt Keywords.
- Use this when the user asks what a protein does, where it's localized, expressed, or which pathways it participates in.
- Keep the output short and focused by highlighting a few diverse and specific annotations for each protein.
- This tool does not perform statistical enrichment — use the enrichment tool for that.
Output fields (per protein):
- stringId: STRING protein identifier
- preferredName: Gene name or alias
- annotation: Functional description or keyword
- category: Source category (e.g. GO, KEGG, Keyword)
- term: Functional term or ID
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| identifiers | string | yes | Separate multiple protein queries by %0d. e.g. SMO%0dTP53 |
| species | any | no | |
| detail_for_term | any | no |
Raw JSON schema
{
"properties": {
"identifiers": {
"description": "Separate multiple protein queries by %0d. e.g. SMO%0dTP53",
"type": "string"
},
"species": {
"anyOf": [
{
"description": "Required. NCBI/STRING taxon (e.g. 9606 for human, or STRG0AXXXXX for uploaded genomes).",
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null
},
"detail_for_term": {
"anyOf": [
{
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"description": "Optional. Exact functional term ID to return with the full list of matching input proteins. Use this when a previous result says a protein list was shortened, omitted, or replaced with 'many'."
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null
}
},
"required": [
"identifiers"
],
"type": "object"
}