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Access the European Nucleotide Archive via REST/FTP to fetch DNA/RNA sequences, raw reads, assemblies, annotations, and taxonomy for research or bioinformatics pipelines.

Query Ensembl’s RESTful API to access gene annotations, sequences, variants, orthologs, and assembly mappings across 250+ species, enabling integration into genomic research pipelines.

Pysam offers Python bindings to htslib for reading and writing SAM/BAM/CRAM alignments, VCF/BCF variants, and FASTA/FASTQ sequences, enabling coverage stats, pileup analysis, variant queries, and seamless integration into NGS pipelines.

scikit-bio provides a Python-native biological data toolkit for reading/writing FASTA/Newick files, manipulating sequences, building alignments and phylogenies, and calculating diversity metrics for microbiome and ecology workflows.

Direct REST API access to UniProt for searching proteins, fetching FASTA sequences, mapping identifiers, selecting annotations, and streaming large datasets within Python workflows.

Query the JASPAR REST API and Python helpers to retrieve TF binding profiles, convert PFMs to PWMs, and scan DNA sequences for high-confidence motifs, enabling regulatory variant interpretation, ChIP/ATAC analysis, and TF network construction.

A comprehensive toolkit for reconstructing and analyzing the evolutionary history of biological sequences (genes, proteins, genomes). The standard workflow includes multiple sequence alignment using MAFFT, robust maximum likelihood tree inference with IQ-TREE 2 and FastTree, and advanced visualization/manipulation using ETE3. This skill is essential for studies in viral phylodynamics, microbial genomics, protein family evolution, and molecular clock dating.

Provides direct REST API access to UniProt, the premier resource for protein sequence and functional information. This skill enables users to search proteins by name, gene, or accession number, retrieve sequences in FASTA format, perform cross-database ID mapping (e.g., Ensembl, RefSeq), and analyze functional annotations (GO terms) for building comprehensive bioinformatics pipelines.

Biopython is a robust, comprehensive toolkit for computational molecular biology written in Python. It enables users to manipulate biological sequences (DNA, RNA, protein), parse standard formats (FASTA, GenBank, PDB, etc.), and programmatically access major bioinformatics databases like NCBI via Entrez. This skill is ideal for developing complex bioinformatics pipelines, including sequence alignment, structural analysis, and phylogenetic tree construction.

This skill provides comprehensive tools to analyze and engineer protein glycosylation patterns. It scans amino acid sequences for canonical N-glycosylation sequons (N-X-S/T) and predicts O-glycosylation hotspots. Use cases include optimizing therapeutic antibodies, designing vaccine antigens, and characterizing biosimilars by rationally modifying glycan structures for improved stability, function, or immune evasion.

This comprehensive skill provides a standardized pipeline for reconstructing the evolutionary history of biological sequences (genes, proteins, genomes). It guides users through essential steps, including multiple sequence alignment using MAFFT, maximum likelihood tree inference with IQ-TREE 2, and visualization with ETE3. Ideal for research in viral phylodynamics, molecular clock studies, and large-scale comparative genomics.