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alterlab-ena
90 / 100 · Low risk
Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.
By AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (GitHub) · research · 87 stars · scanned at commit 3ab6d03
Access the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) via its API and FTP to retrieve DNA/RNA sequences, raw sequencing reads (FASTQ), and genome assemblies by accession, with support for multiple formats. Use when downloading reads or sequences for a study, run, or sample accession, or when sourcing nucleotide data for genomics and bioinformatics pipelines. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Connects to the internet
The author does not mention this. Expected for a research skill.
Found in 22 places.
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- skills/databases/alterlab-ena/references/api_reference.md, line 91
response = requests.get(url, params=params) - skills/databases/alterlab-ena/references/api_reference.md, line 115
response = requests.get(url, params=params) - skills/databases/alterlab-ena/references/api_reference.md, line 131
response = requests.get(url) - skills/databases/alterlab-ena/references/api_reference.md, line 172
response = requests.get(url, params=params) - skills/databases/alterlab-ena/references/api_reference.md, line 209
response = requests.get(url) - skills/databases/alterlab-ena/references/api_reference.md, line 215
response = requests.get(url, params=params) - skills/databases/alterlab-ena/references/api_reference.md, line 240
response = requests.get(url) - skills/databases/alterlab-ena/references/api_reference.md, line 266
response = requests.get(url) - skills/databases/alterlab-ena/references/api_reference.md, line 272
response = requests.get(url, params=params) - skills/databases/alterlab-ena/references/api_reference.md, line 296
response = requests.get(url) - skills/databases/alterlab-ena/references/api_reference.md, line 319
response = requests.get(url) - skills/databases/alterlab-ena/references/api_reference.md, line 338
response = requests.get(url) - skills/databases/alterlab-ena/references/api_reference.md, line 355
response = requests.get(url) - skills/databases/alterlab-ena/references/api_reference.md, line 384
response = requests.get(url) - skills/databases/alterlab-ena/references/api_reference.md, line 408
response = requests.get(url) - skills/databases/alterlab-ena/references/api_reference.md, line 437
session = requests.Session() - skills/databases/alterlab-ena/references/api_reference.md, line 476
response = requests.get(f"{base_url}/xml/{acc}")
and 2 more places
Runs commands on your computer
The author does not mention this.
Found in 1 place.
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'alterlab-ena' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'alterlab-ena' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named alterlab-ena 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 "$d" checkout --quiet '3ab6d034385ec4fedc3f6f4099292d4e91f60300' -- 'skills/databases/alterlab-ena' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/databases/alterlab-ena' ~/.agents/skills/'alterlab-ena' && 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-ena' ~/.claude/skills/'alterlab-ena' (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 | 90 |