Database Lookup Agent Skill
Search 78 public scientific, biomedical, materials science, and economic databases via REST APIs. Covers physics/astronomy (NASA, NIST, SDSS, SIMBAD), earth/environment (USGS, NOAA, EPA), chemistry/drugs (PubChem, ChEMBL, DrugBank, FDA, KEGG, ZINC, BindingDB), materials (Materials Project, COD), biology/genomics (Reactome, UniProt, STRING, Ensembl, NCBI Gene, GEO, GTEx, PDB, AlphaFold, InterPro, BioGRID, Gene Ontology, dbSNP, gnomAD, ENCODE, Human Protein Atlas, Human Cell Atlas), disease/clinical (COSMIC, Open Targets, ClinicalTrials.gov, OMIM, ClinVar, GDC/TCGA, cBioPortal, DisGeNET, GWAS Catalog), regulatory (FDA, USPTO, SEC EDGAR), economics/finance (FRED, World Bank, US Treasury), demographics (US Census, Eurostat, WHO). Use when looking up compounds, genes, proteins, pathways, variants, clinical trials, patents, economic indicators, or any public database API query.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills --skill database-lookupOther skills for the same job
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How to use it
Take biotender-max/database-lookup from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
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.