bio-ensembl-rest

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By lilinji/GeneTind-Life-Skills (GitHub) · coding · 17 stars · scanned at commit 908229c

Query the Ensembl REST API for gene/transcript/protein lookup, sequence retrieval, comparative genomics (Compara), variant effect prediction (VEP), regulatory features, and cross-species ortholog/paralog calls. Use when pulling Ensembl-native data (Ensembl Gene IDs, version-pinned releases, archive endpoints for reproducibility), gene/transcript/exon structure with stable IDs, or VEP for variant annotation. Encodes the 15 req/sec rate limit, archive (e110.rest.ensembl.org) for reproducibility, …

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Sends data to these websites: rest.ensembl.org

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Found in 6 places.

skills/bio-ensembl-rest/SKILL.md, line 24- Python: `requests.get('https://rest.ensembl.org/...')`
skills/bio-ensembl-rest/SKILL.md, line 144r = requests.get(url, params=params, headers=HEADERS)
skills/bio-ensembl-rest/SKILL.md, line 250r = requests.get(f'{ARCHIVE}/lookup/symbol/human/BRCA1', headers={'Accept': 'application/json'})

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skills/bio-ensembl-rest/examples/compara_homology.py, line 13r = requests.get(url, params=params, headers=HEADERS)
skills/bio-ensembl-rest/examples/lookup_and_overlap.py, line 14r = requests.get(url, params=params, headers=HEADERS)
skills/bio-ensembl-rest/examples/vep_annotation.py, line 13r = requests.get(url, params=params, headers=HEADERS)

Downloads and installs other software

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skills/bio-ensembl-rest/usage-guide.md, line 10pip install requests

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'bio-ensembl-rest' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'bio-ensembl-rest' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named bio-ensembl-rest already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/lilinji/GeneTind-Life-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '908229c955510a1841b216e8bf58f6b22818d4dc' -- 'skills/bio-ensembl-rest' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/bio-ensembl-rest' ~/.agents/skills/'bio-ensembl-rest' && 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/'bio-ensembl-rest' ~/.claude/skills/'bio-ensembl-rest' (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
2026-11-11	`908229c`	80

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Identical copies of this skill exist at:

BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills/skills/bioskills/ensembl-rest