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clinvar-database
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By jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills (GitHub) · coding · 388 stars · scanned at commit 65d6ceb
Query NCBI ClinVar via E-utilities for variant clinical significance, pathogenicity, disease associations. Search by gene/rsID/condition/review status; returns ClinSig, submitter data, conditions, HGVS. For GWAS use gwas-database; for variant consequence prediction use Ensembl VEP.
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Downloads and installs other software
The author does not mention this.
Found in 1 place.
Runs commands on your computer
The author does not mention this. Expected for a coding skill.
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Connects to the internet
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.
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- skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/clinvar-database/SKILL.md, line 110
ids, _ = esearch_func = lambda q: requests.get( - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/clinvar-database/SKILL.md, line 144
r = requests.post(f"{BASE}/efetch.fcgi", - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/clinvar-database/SKILL.md, line 175
import urllib.request - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/clinvar-database/SKILL.md, line 182
with urllib.request.urlopen(URL) as resp: - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/clinvar-database/SKILL.md, line 221
r = requests.get(f"{BASE}/esearch.fcgi", - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/clinvar-database/SKILL.md, line 242
r = requests.post(f"{BASE}/esummary.fcgi", - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/clinvar-database/SKILL.md, line 290
r = requests.get(f"{BASE}/esearch.fcgi", - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/clinvar-database/SKILL.md, line 299
r = requests.post(f"{BASE}/esummary.fcgi", - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/clinvar-database/SKILL.md, line 343
r = requests.get(f"{BASE}/esearch.fcgi", - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/clinvar-database/SKILL.md, line 351
r2 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/esummary.fcgi", - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/clinvar-database/SKILL.md, line 404
r = requests.get( - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/clinvar-database/SKILL.md, line 440
r = requests.get( - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/clinvar-database/SKILL.md, line 457
| XML parse error in EFetch | Incomplete response (timeout) | Set `requests.get(..., timeout=30)` and retry once |
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'clinvar-database' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'clinvar-database' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named clinvar-database already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '65d6ceb875e20b751ffb3a6d8ee19516558789e1' -- 'skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/clinvar-database' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/clinvar-database' ~/.agents/skills/'clinvar-database' && 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/'clinvar-database' ~/.claude/skills/'clinvar-database' (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 |
|---|
| 2026-11-07 | 65d6ceb | 100 |