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kegg-database
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By jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills (GitHub) · coding · 388 stars · scanned at commit 65d6ceb
KEGG REST API (academic only). Pathways, genes, compounds, enzymes, diseases, drugs via 7 ops (info/list/find/get/conv/link/ddi). ID conversion (NCBI/UniProt/PubChem). Use bioservices for multi-DB Python.
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What this skill can do
Downloads and installs other software
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Runs commands on your computer
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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/kegg-database/SKILL.md, line 99
hsa_pathways = requests.get(f"{BASE}/list/pathway/hsa").text - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/kegg-database/SKILL.md, line 107
genes = requests.get(f"{BASE}/list/hsa:10458+hsa:10459").text - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/kegg-database/SKILL.md, line 124
results = requests.get(f"{BASE}/find/genes/p53").text - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/kegg-database/SKILL.md, line 129
compounds = requests.get(f"{BASE}/find/compound/C7H10N4O2/formula").text - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/kegg-database/SKILL.md, line 134
drugs = requests.get(f"{BASE}/find/drug/300-310/exact_mass").text - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/kegg-database/SKILL.md, line 151
pathway = requests.get(f"{BASE}/get/hsa00010").text - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/kegg-database/SKILL.md, line 156
genes = requests.get(f"{BASE}/get/hsa:10458+hsa:10459").text - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/kegg-database/SKILL.md, line 159
fasta = requests.get(f"{BASE}/get/hsa:10458/aaseq").text - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/kegg-database/SKILL.md, line 164
mol = requests.get(f"{BASE}/get/cpd:C00002/mol").text # ATP - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/kegg-database/SKILL.md, line 167
img_resp = requests.get(f"{BASE}/get/hsa05130/image") - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/kegg-database/SKILL.md, line 186
ncbi = requests.get(f"{BASE}/conv/ncbi-geneid/hsa:10458").text - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/kegg-database/SKILL.md, line 192
uniprot = requests.get(f"{BASE}/conv/uniprot/hsa:10458").text - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/kegg-database/SKILL.md, line 197
all_conv = requests.get(f"{BASE}/conv/ncbi-geneid/hsa").text - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/kegg-database/SKILL.md, line 202
reverse = requests.get(f"{BASE}/conv/hsa/ncbi-geneid:7157").text - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/kegg-database/SKILL.md, line 219
genes = requests.get(f"{BASE}/link/genes/hsa00010").text - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/kegg-database/SKILL.md, line 225
pathways = requests.get(f"{BASE}/link/pathway/hsa:7157").text # TP53 - skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/kegg-database/SKILL.md, line 230
compounds = requests.get(f"{BASE}/link/compound/hsa00010").text
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if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'kegg-database' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'kegg-database' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named kegg-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 "$d" checkout --quiet '65d6ceb875e20b751ffb3a6d8ee19516558789e1' -- 'skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/kegg-database' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/kegg-database' ~/.agents/skills/'kegg-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/'kegg-database' ~/.claude/skills/'kegg-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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| Date | Version | Score |
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| 2026-11-07 | 65d6ceb | 100 |