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gene-database
90 / 100 · Low risk
Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.
By lamm-mit/scienceclaw (GitHub) · coding · 251 stars · scanned at commit 894598c
Query NCBI Gene via E-utilities/Datasets API. Search by symbol/ID, retrieve gene info (RefSeqs, GO, locations, phenotypes), batch lookups, for gene annotation and functional analysis.
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Runs commands on your computer
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Found in 3 places.
Sends data to these websites: eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, api.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- skills/gene-database/references/api_reference.md, line 156
curl "https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=gene&db=pubmed&id=672&retmode=json" - skills/gene-database/references/api_reference.md, line 171
curl "https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/einfo.fcgi?db=gene&retmode=json" - skills/gene-database/references/api_reference.md, line 203
curl "https://api.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/v2alpha/gene/id/672" - skills/gene-database/references/api_reference.md, line 262
curl "https://api.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/v2alpha/gene/symbol/BRCA1/taxon/9606" - skills/gene-database/references/api_reference.md, line 282
curl -X POST "https://api.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/v2alpha/gene/id" \ - skills/gene-database/references/common_workflows.md, line 167
curl "https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=gene&db=homologene&id=7157&retmode=json" - skills/gene-database/references/common_workflows.md, line 205
import urllib.request - skills/gene-database/references/common_workflows.md, line 212
with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response: - skills/gene-database/references/common_workflows.md, line 254
curl "https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=gene&db=clinvar&id=672&retmode=json" - skills/gene-database/references/common_workflows.md, line 308
curl "https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=gene&db=pubmed&id=672&retmode=json" - skills/gene-database/references/common_workflows.md, line 323
import urllib.request - skills/gene-database/references/common_workflows.md, line 332
with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response: - skills/gene-database/scripts/batch_gene_lookup.py, line 14
import urllib.request - skills/gene-database/scripts/batch_gene_lookup.py, line 78
with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response: - skills/gene-database/scripts/batch_gene_lookup.py, line 131
with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response: - skills/gene-database/scripts/fetch_gene_data.py, line 13
import urllib.request - skills/gene-database/scripts/fetch_gene_data.py, line 74
req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=headers)
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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/'gene-database' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'gene-database' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named gene-database already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/lamm-mit/scienceclaw' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '894598cd3a90891a077c254566276bd379038bad' -- 'skills/gene-database' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/gene-database' ~/.agents/skills/'gene-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/'gene-database' ~/.claude/skills/'gene-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 |
|---|
| 2026-11-13 | 894598c | 90 |