Bio Ncbi Datasets CLI

biotender-max/bio-ncbi-datasets-cli

Download genome assemblies, gene records, and ortholog data from NCBI using the modern Datasets v2 CLI (replaces assembly_summary.txt scraping and many EFetch workflows). Use when bulk-pulling genome assemblies, gene metadata across species, ortholog sets, or BLAST databases; when E-utilities are too slow for genome-scale work; or when automatic checksum verification, parallel download, and clean accession-driven retrieval are required. Encodes the JSON-lines output format, dataformat conversion, --dehydrated for cloud workflows, and when Datasets is/isn't the right tool.

6k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

ships runnable scripts

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

132

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/BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills --skill bio-ncbi-datasets-cli

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take biotender-max/bio-ncbi-datasets-cli from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

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