Matchmaker Exchange API

The Matchmaker Exchange (MME) API provides a shared language that databases can use to query each other to find similar patients. The API is build around a standardized patient profile that includes both phenotype and genotype information. Implementing the API involves parsing a query profile, identifying cases in your database that are similar, and returning a list of profiles for those cases.

Implementing the MME API

Version 1.1 (latest release):

• API specification: search-api.md
• Publication in Human Mutation: doi:10.1002/humu.22850

Have a question? Send us an email at api@matchmakerexchange.org or create a GitHub issue.

How to connect to another endpoint

• To query most MME services, you need to request an authentication token from that service. You can find a more detailed description here: join-protocol.md.
• To help securely share authentication tokens, the KEYS file contains GPG keys for at least one member of each MME team.

Endpoints

The wiki contains an up-to-date list of active endpoints: https://github.com/ga4gh/mme-apis/wiki/Endpoints

Open-source API implementations

The wiki contains a list of open-source implementations of the MME API: https://github.com/ga4gh/mme-apis/wiki/Implementations