# Cellosaurus Cancer Cell Line Lookup via DepMap

> Cellosaurus Cancer Cell Line Lookup via DepMap is a paid API for AI agents from api.healthtravel-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Look up cancer cell line metadata (DepMap ID, ATCC catalog number, disease, species, sex, donor age, sampling site, ancestry, and Cellosaurus link) by cell line name, Cellosaurus accession, or DepMap ID, or list all DepMap-linked lines for a given disease.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.healthtravel-api.workers.dev/api/health/cell-line-depmap-cancer?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/cellosaurus-cancer-cell-line-lookup-via-depmap-5016531b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_vQRjPIBi30pKCkaTAhRW3

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability cellosaurus-cancer-cell-line-lookup-via-depmap-5016531b
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the MCF-7 cell line and give me its DepMap ID, ATCC catalog number, disease annotation, species, and Cellosaurus link?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative, structured metadata about cancer cell lines from the Cellosaurus reference database, especially when you need DepMap IDs for computational cancer dependency analyses, ATCC catalog numbers for procurement, or disease/NCIt annotations for biological classification. Prefer this over general web search when working with specific cell line identifiers (CVCL_ or ACH- format) or when you need curated fields like genetic ancestry, donor age, sex, and sampling site in a structured format.

## Known failure modes

- Cell line name not found — returns empty or no-match result
- Invalid or unknown DepMap ID (ACH-…) returns no results
- Typo in Cellosaurus accession format returns error or empty response
- Disease search with very broad term may return truncated results if limit is not set
- No DepMap lines exist for an obscure disease — returns empty list
- Limit parameter out of range (>50 or <1) may cause validation error

## How this service works

Cancer cell line lookup with DepMap IDs, from Cellosaurus (SIB, the reference cell line knowledge base): find a line by name (e.g. MCF-7), Cellosaurus accession (CVCL_…) or DepMap ID (ACH-…), or list DepMap lines for a disease. Returns names and synonyms, DepMap ID, ATCC catalog number, disease (NCIt), species, sex, donor age, sampling site, genetic ancestry and the Cellosaurus link.

## Output

Returns structured metadata for matched cancer cell lines including: primary name and synonyms, DepMap ID (ACH-…), Cellosaurus accession (CVCL_…), ATCC catalog number, disease name with NCIt annotation, species, sex, donor age, tissue sampling site, genetic ancestry, and a direct URL to the Cellosaurus entry. For disease queries, returns a list of matching DepMap-linked lines up to the specified limit.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "name": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Cell line name, e.g. MCF-7, HeLa, A549"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Results for disease search, 1 to 50 (default 10)"
      },
      "disease": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Disease text, e.g. breast carcinoma (lists DepMap-linked lines)"
      },
      "depmapId": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "DepMap ID, e.g. ACH-000019"
      },
      "accession": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Cellosaurus accession, e.g. CVCL_0031"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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