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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Query the Ensembl database to resolve gene, transcript, and protein IDs, fetch genomic or protein sequences, retrieve gene structures (exons), and get variant consequence and effect predictions (VEP). Use this skill as a primary ID translator, genomic sequence database and variant effect prediction tool.
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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.
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Search PubMed for scientific literature, including published clinical trials. Fetch abstracts and full text. Link published research to biological databases (gene, protein, nucleotide, PubChem) to discover associations between papers and specific compounds or genes. Verify medical spelling, match raw citations, and cache result sets for bulk processing. Interfaces NCBI E-utilities and PMC BioC APIs.
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Query the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). Use when determining the rarity or allele frequency of specific genetic variants, retrieving gene constraint metrics (pLI, LOEUF) to assess loss-of-function intolerance, finding variants in a genomic region or gene, or querying structural variants. Don't use for analyzing individual patient genomes, tracking somatic mutations in cancer (use COSMIC), or requesting raw sequencing reads (use ENA).
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Use when you want to look up, map, and search for short genetic variants (SNPs, indels) in NCBI's dbSNP database. Resolves between rsIDs, genomic coordinates in VCF format, and HGVS strings. For an rsID, returns variant type, gene associations, clinical significance, allele frequencies, and genomic coordinates (GRCh38).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ancient text restoration, attribution, dating, contextualization, and embedding via Aeneas (Latin) / Ithaca (Ancient Greek). Use when asked to "restore", "attribute", "date", "contextualize", "find parallels", "where was it written", "when was it written", "embed", or "analyze" an ancient text, inscription, or epigraphic document, or when the user mentions "Aeneas", or "Ithaca".
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Query the JASPAR database for Transcription Factor (TF) binding profiles. Use when retrieving Position Frequency Matrices (PFMs) or Position Weight Matrices (PWMs) for specific TFs, resolving gene symbols to JASPAR Matrix IDs, or getting TF metadata. Supports multiple output formats (MEME, TRANSFAC, PFM, JASPAR, YAML).
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Query the ChEMBL database for bioactive molecules, drug targets, bioactivity data, approved drugs, and chemical structures. Use when the user asks about compounds, targets, IC50/Ki values, drug mechanisms, or structure searches.
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Checks whether the uv Python package manager is installed and installs it if missing. Ensures uv is on PATH. Use when another skill requires uv as a prerequisite.
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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.
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Queries the UniBind database for experimentally validated transcription factor (TF) binding sites. Use when retrieving direct TF-DNA interaction datasets, downloading binding site coordinates (BED/FASTA) for local analysis, or listing available datasets by species, cell line, or TF name. Don't use to query specific intervals, locations, genes, motif models or expression data.
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Identify domains, families, and sites in proteins; find all proteins in a family or sharing a domain; explore species distribution for a domain; annotate genomes with protein families and GO terms. InterPro combines 14 databases (e.g., Pfam, CDD) into one searchable resource. InterPro-N significantly expands annotation and sequence coverage with deep learning. Includes domain architecture (IDA) search.
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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.
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Access protein metadata, function, taxonomy, and sequences across UniProtKB, UniParc, and UniRef. Use when searching for proteins, mapping identifiers, or retrieving functional annotations and publications. Don't use for sequence alignment, protein folding, or sequence similarity search (use specialized skills for those tasks).
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Query the Reactome database (Analysis and Content Services). Use when the user asks about pathway analysis, gene list enrichment, retrieving results by token, finding unmapped or not-found identifiers, mapping identifiers, reaction participants (inputs, outputs), pathway hierarchy (including top-level pathways), diagram export, cross-reference mapping, or searching the knowledgebase.
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