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alterlab-alphafold-db
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By AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (GitHub) · research · 87 stars · scanned at commit 3ab6d03
Access the AlphaFold DB of 240M+ AI-PREDICTED protein structures (v6, plus precomputed homodimer/heterodimer complexes) — retrieve models by UniProt accession, download PDB/mmCIF files, and analyze prediction confidence metrics (pLDDT, PAE). Use when a UniProt ID needs a computationally predicted 3D structure or when no experimental structure exists, for homology modeling, protein engineering, or structure-based drug discovery; for EXPERIMENTALLY determined structures (X-ray, cryo-EM, NMR) pref…
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What this skill can do
Sends data to these websites: alphafold.ebi.ac.uk, ftp.ebi.ac.uk, sdk.cloud.google.com
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- skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db/references/api_reference.md, line 355
curl -O https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/alphafold/latest/UP000005640_9606_HUMAN_v6.tar - skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db/references/api_reference.md, line 405
> **Caution:** Avoid `curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash` — piping a - skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db/references/code_examples.md, line 43
r = requests.get(f"https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/api/prediction/{uniprot_id}", timeout=30) - skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db/references/code_examples.md, line 73
r = requests.post(f'{base}/idmapping/run', - skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db/references/code_examples.md, line 79
s = requests.get(f'{base}/idmapping/status/{job_id}').json() - skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db/references/code_examples.md, line 86
res = requests.get(f'{base}/idmapping/results/{job_id}').json() - skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db/references/code_examples.md, line 113
r = requests.get(rec["cifUrl"]) - skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db/references/code_examples.md, line 118
confidence_data = requests.get(rec["plddtDocUrl"]).json() - skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db/references/code_examples.md, line 121
pae_data = requests.get(rec["paeDocUrl"]).json() - skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db/references/code_examples.md, line 128
r = requests.get(rec["pdbUrl"]) - skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db/references/code_examples.md, line 144
confidence = requests.get(rec["plddtDocUrl"]).json() - skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db/references/code_examples.md, line 168
pae = requests.get(rec["paeDocUrl"]).json() - skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db/references/code_examples.md, line 194
curl -s https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/alphafold/download_metadata.json -o download_metadata.json - skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db/references/code_examples.md, line 197
curl -O https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/alphafold/latest/UP000005640_9606_HUMAN_v6.tar - skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db/references/code_examples.md, line 346
preds = requests.get( - skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db/references/code_examples.md, line 357
cif = requests.get(rec['cifUrl']) - skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db/references/code_examples.md, line 362
conf_data = requests.get(rec['plddtDocUrl']).json()
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Runs commands on your computer
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Downloads and installs other software
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if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'alterlab-alphafold-db' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'alterlab-alphafold-db' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named alterlab-alphafold-db already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '3ab6d034385ec4fedc3f6f4099292d4e91f60300' -- 'skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/databases/alterlab-alphafold-db' ~/.agents/skills/'alterlab-alphafold-db' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'alterlab-alphafold-db' ~/.claude/skills/'alterlab-alphafold-db' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
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| 2026-11-07 | 3ab6d03 | 75 |