Data & Analytics Skills

Retrieve and analyze AlphaFold predicted structures for a protein. Use when the user provides a specific UniProt Accession ID and wants structural confidence metrics (pLDDT), domain boundary analysis, or disorder assessment. Do not use if the user only has a protein name, gene name, or amino acid sequence — ask for a UniProt ID first.

Analyzes genetic variant effects on gene expression (RNA-seq), chromatin accessibility (DNASE), histone marks (ChIP), and transcription factors using the AlphaGenome API. Use when the user asks about non-coding variant effects, pathogenicity, clinical significance, disease associations, functional effects, gene expression changes, splicing disruption, or regulatory effects in promoters and enhancers. Also use for resolving biological terms to tissue/cell-type ontologies (UBERON/CL) or analyzing variants in chr:pos:ref>alt format.

Query ClinicalTrials.gov via APIv2. Use when you want to search for trials by condition, drug, location, status, or phase; retrieve trial details by NCT ID; check eligibility/inclusion criteria; count trials across conditions or time periods; identify a sponsor's trial portfolio; find recruiting trials for patient matching.

Query NCBI ClinVar for variant clinical significance.

Query and search the EMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) for biomedical ontology terms, definitions, and hierarchies across 250+ ontologies (e.g., GO, DOID, HP). Use when the user asks to search for terms, retrieve details, navigate hierarchies (parents, children, ancestors), look up properties and individuals, get autocomplete suggestions, or access ontology metadata and statistics.

Query the ENCODE Registry of cis-Regulatory Elements (cCREs) via the SCREEN GraphQL API, or make custom queries to the ENCODE Portal REST API for experiments and files (ChIP-seq peaks, etc.). Use when you want to query regulatory annotations or raw experimental data across human cell types.

Performs 3D structural searches of proteins against various databases (PDB, AlphaFold, CATH, MGnify, etc.) using the Foldseek API. Use ONLY when the user provides a physical 3D coordinate file (.cif, .mmcif, or .pdb) and wants to find structurally similar proteins. Do NOT use if the user only provides a protein sequence, gene name, or UniProt ID.

Use when you want to retrieve semi-quantitative protein expression and spatial localisation data from the Human Protein Atlas (HPA).

Search for scientific papers, preprints, and publications on arXiv. Extract metadata, abstracts, and download full-text PDFs or HTML versions of papers. Use when the user asks to find research papers, literature, or specific arXiv IDs.

Browse, filter, and download life sciences, biology, and medical preprints from bioRxiv and medRxiv. Supports fetching paper metadata by DOI, and browsing by date range with category and keyword filters. Keyword filtering is local, so date ranges MUST be narrow (1-4 weeks) with a category to prevent timeouts.

Search Europe PMC for scientific literature and download open-access full texts and PDFs. Retrieve full-text XML/plain text by PMCID, get citation lists and bibliography.

Query the OpenAlex scholarly database for research papers, authors, institutions, topics, sources, publishers, funders, geo-locations, and keywords. Use when searching academic papers, resolving DOIs, downloading open-access PDFs, finding an author's publications, aggregating bibliometric data (citation counts, h-index, impact factor), exploring the research taxonomies, or performing DOI lookups.

Retrieve protein and nucleotide sequences from NCBI databases using E-utilities. Supports direct accession lookup, CDS translation, gene+organism search, locus lookup, PubMed-linked sequences, patent protein extraction, and organism+length fallback search. Use when you need to fetch biological sequences by accession, gene name, locus tag, PubMed ID, or patent number.

Query, search, and download data from the openFDA API for drugs, devices, foods, tobacco, cosmetics, animal and veterinary products, substances, and transparency data. Use for FDA adverse events, recalls, labeling, approvals, shortages, 510(k) clearances, NDC lookups, and any FDA safety or regulatory data query across all 28 API endpoints.

Query Open Targets Platform for target-disease associations, drug target discovery, tractability/safety data, genetics/omics evidence, known drugs, for therapeutic…

Performs multiple sequence alignment of proteins with EBI Clustal Omega. Use when you need to align multiple sequences to assess similarity, domain conservation, or key residue conservation. Supports up to 4000 sequences and a maximum file size of 4 MB. Do not use to search for homologous proteins in a database (use MMseqs2, BLAST), align non-protein sequences (DNA, RNA), perform structural alignment (use Foldseek, PyMOL), or if you only have a single sequence.

Searches for homologous protein sequences using MMseqs2 (fast, default) or BLAST (comprehensive, fallback). Trigger this whenever the user provides a protein sequence or FASTA file and asks to find homologues, sequence matches, or wants to infer protein function based on sequence similarity, but not when the user wants to infer protein function based on structural similarity.

Query PubChem via PUG-REST API/PubChemPy (110M+ compounds).

Direct REST API access to PubMed. Advanced Boolean/MeSH queries, E-utilities API, batch processing, citation management.

Visualize, analyze, and render protein and molecular structures using PyMOL. Use when the user wants to create images of protein structures, perform structural alignments or superposition, measure distances or contacts, highlight binding sites or active site residues, color by B-factor/pLDDT, or analyze protein-ligand interactions. Do not use for docking, molecular dynamics, or sequence-only analysis.

Query Reactome REST API for pathway analysis, enrichment, gene-pathway mapping, disease pathways, molecular interactions, expression analysis, for systems biology…

Shared Python package for Science Skills, currently containing httpclient -- a unified HTTP client with rate limiting, retries, and exponential backoff. Not a standalone agent skill. Do not invoke directly.

Query STRING API for protein-protein interactions (59M proteins, 20B interactions).

Fetch Evolutionary Conservation scores (phyloP, phastCons) and Transcription Factor Binding Sites (TFBS) from the UCSC Genome Browser. Use when analyzing whether genomic variants or regions are evolutionarily conserved, functionally important, or bounded by TF regulators across major projects (ENCODE, JASPAR, ReMap).