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cosmic-database
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By jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills (GitHub) · data · 388 stars · scanned at commit 65d6ceb
Query COSMIC for cancer somatic mutations, gene census, mutational signatures, drug resistance variants. REST API v3.1 supports gene/sample/variant queries; free registration. For germline use clinvar-database; for drug-target data use opentargets-database or chembl-database-bioactivity.
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Downloads and installs other software
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Found in 1 place.
Runs commands on your computer
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Sends data to these websites: cancer.sanger.ac.uk
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a data skill.
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- skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/cosmic-database/SKILL.md, line 127
r_cgc = requests.get(f"{BASE}/genes", - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/cosmic-database/SKILL.md, line 162
r = requests.get(f"{BASE}/mutations/{mutation_id}", headers=HEADERS) - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/cosmic-database/SKILL.md, line 190
r = requests.get(f"{BASE}/samples", - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/cosmic-database/SKILL.md, line 202
r2 = requests.get(f"{BASE}/samples/{sample_id}/mutations", headers=HEADERS) - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/cosmic-database/SKILL.md, line 225
r = requests.get(f"{BASE}/signatures", headers=HEADERS) - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/cosmic-database/SKILL.md, line 235
r2 = requests.get(f"{BASE}/signatures/attributions", - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/cosmic-database/SKILL.md, line 259
r = requests.get(f"{BASE}/resistance_mutations", - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/cosmic-database/SKILL.md, line 306
r = requests.get(f"{BASE}/mutations", - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/cosmic-database/SKILL.md, line 350
r = requests.get(f"{BASE}/genes", - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/cosmic-database/SKILL.md, line 417
r = requests.get("https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic/api/mutations", - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/cosmic-database/SKILL.md, line 441
r = requests.get("https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic/api/mutations", - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/cosmic-database/SKILL.md, line 463
r = requests.get("https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic/api/genes",
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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/'cosmic-database' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'cosmic-database' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named cosmic-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 "$d" checkout --quiet '65d6ceb875e20b751ffb3a6d8ee19516558789e1' -- 'skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/cosmic-database' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/cosmic-database' ~/.agents/skills/'cosmic-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/'cosmic-database' ~/.claude/skills/'cosmic-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 |
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| 2026-11-07 | 65d6ceb | 100 |