GET ContentService/data/participants/{id}/referenceEntities

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Summary: A list of participating ReferenceEntities for a given event
Operation ID: getParticipatingReferenceEntities
Auth: unknown
Description

PhysicalEntity instances that represent, e.g., the same chemical in different compartments, or different post-translationally modified forms of a single protein, share numerous invariant features such as names, molecular structure and links to external databases like UniProt or ChEBI.<br>To enable storage of this shared information in a single place, and to create an explicit link among all the variant forms of what can also be seen as a single chemical entity, Reactome creates instances of the separate ReferenceEntity class. A ReferenceEntity instance captures the invariant features of a molecule.<br>This method retrieves the ReferenceEntities of all PhysicalEntities that take part in a given event. It is worth mentioning that because a pathway can contain smaller pathways (subpathways), this method also recursively retrieves the ReferenceEntities for all PhysicalEntities in every constituent pathway.

Parameters (3)

id (string, path, required)

The event for which the participating ReferenceEntities are requested

includeRef (boolean, query, optional, default: False)

Global parameter - If true, replace element ref to dbId by standard JSOG object {@ref}

view (string, query, optional, default: flatten)

Global parameter - Customise the view to be more concise and/or aggregate relationships

Constraints: {'enum': ['flatten', 'nested', 'nested-aggregated']}

Examples (1)

TitleTypeURLAction
A list of participating ReferenceEntities for a given event openapi-spec https://reactome.org/ContentService/data/participants/5205685/referenceEntities

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2026-03-23 10:47:40.263872 200 344ms