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Alterlab Bioservices

alterlab-ieu/alterlab-bioservices

Query 40+ bioinformatics web services through one consistent Python API with bioservices (UniProt, KEGG, ChEMBL, Reactome, Ensembl, NCBI and more). Use when a workflow must hit multiple databases together, map identifiers across services, or run cross-database analyses — for quick single-database lookups use gget, for sequence and file manipulation use biopython. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.

27k tokens
context cost
the whole folder, loaded on every use
9
files
ships runnable scripts
0
copies elsewhere
how many repositories repackaged it
56
stars on the repo
on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository 
npx skills add https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-bioservices

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take alterlab-ieu/alterlab-bioservices from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.

Install what it needs

The instructions reference pip, uv. Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.