Query RCSB PDB for experimental protein structures. Use when user asks about crystal structures, X-ray, cryo-EM, NMR structures, or PDB IDs. Triggers on "pdb", "crystal structure", "cryo-em", "x-ray structure", "protein crystal", "experimental structure".
Query Reactome for biological pathways and reactions. Use when user asks about signaling cascades, biological processes, pathway diagrams, or reaction details. Triggers on "reactome", "signaling cascade", "biological pathway", "pathway diagram", "reaction mechanism".
Query STRING for protein-protein interactions. Use when user asks about protein interactions, interaction networks, binding partners, or interactome. Triggers on "string", "protein interaction", "interaction network", "binding partners", "interactome", "PPI".
Query UniProt protein database. Use when user asks about protein sequences, functions, annotations, domains, or protein identifiers. Triggers on "uniprot", "protein function", "protein sequence", "gene product", "protein info".
Publication-quality PDF report generation using Typst templates. Produces professional scientific reports with colored section bands, styled tables, figure captions, callout boxes, and page headers/footers.
Standard scRNA-seq preprocessing and clustering with Scanpy. Use for QC, normalization, HVG selection, PCA, neighbor graph construction, UMAP, Leiden clustering, and export of an analysis-ready AnnData object.
Review SDS-PAGE or protein purification gel images using DNA sequence, protein sequence, base-pair length, expected protein size, and lane labels. Use when the user wants to judge whether a gel ran well, whether the main band matches the expected product, or whether there may be impurities, degradation, aggregation…
Analyze DNA/RNA/protein sequences. Use when the user provides a sequence and asks for analysis, translation, GC content, ORFs, motifs, restriction sites, or primer design. Triggers on "sequence", "translate", "GC content", "ORF", "primer", "restriction", "complement", "reverse complement".
Browse and install community skills from the BioClaw Skills Hub. Use when a user's task is not covered by built-in skills, or when the user asks about available skills, advanced workflows, or specialized analysis pipelines. Triggers on "skills hub", "more skills", "install skill", "community skills", "find a skill…
Computational protein design toolkit. Use this skill group when: (1) Designing protein binders from scratch, (2) Predicting protein structures (Chai, Boltz, Protenix), (3) Sequence design with ProteinMPNN/LigandMPNN/SolubleMPNN, (4) Quality control and filtering of protein designs, (5) Planning and managing binder…
Guidance for choosing the right protein binder design tool. Use this skill when: (1) Deciding between BoltzGen or BindCraft, (2) Planning a binder design campaign, (3) Understanding trade-offs between different approaches, (4) Selecting tools for specific target types.
Guidance for SPR and BLI binding characterization experiments. Use when: (1) Planning binding kinetics experiments, (2) Troubleshooting poor/no binding signal, (3) Interpreting kinetic data artifacts, (4) Choosing between SPR vs BLI platforms.
Structure prediction using Boltz-1/Boltz-2, an open biomolecular structure predictor. Use this skill when: (1) Predicting protein complex structures, (2) Validating designed binders, (3) Need open-source alternative to AF2, (4) Predicting protein-ligand complexes, (5) Using local GPU resources. For QC thresholds, use…
All-atom protein design using BoltzGen diffusion model. Use this skill when: (1) Need side-chain aware design from the start, (2) Designing around small molecules or ligands, (3) Want all-atom diffusion (not just backbone), (4) Require precise binding geometries, (5) Using YAML-based configuration. For sequence-only…
Goal-oriented binder design campaign planning and health assessment. Use this skill when: (1) Planning a complete binder design campaign, (2) Converting high-level goals into runnable pipelines, (3) Assessing campaign health and pass rates, (4) Diagnosing why designs are failing QC, (5) Estimating time, cost, and…
Structure prediction using Chai-1, a foundation model for molecular structure. Use this skill when: (1) Predicting protein-protein complex structures, (2) Validating designed binders, (3) Predicting protein-ligand complexes, (4) Using the Chai API for high-throughput prediction, (5) Need an alternative to AlphaFold2.…
ESM2 protein language model for embeddings and sequence scoring. Use this skill when: (1) Computing pseudo-log-likelihood (PLL) scores, (2) Getting protein embeddings for clustering, (3) Filtering designs by sequence plausibility, (4) Zero-shot variant effect prediction, (5) Analyzing sequence-function relationships.…
Structure similarity search with Foldseek. Use this skill when: (1) Finding similar structures in PDB/AFDB databases, (2) Structural homology search, (3) Database queries by 3D structure, (4) Finding remote homologs not detected by sequence, (5) Clustering structures by similarity. For sequence similarity, use uniprot…
Antibody and nanobody CDR design using IgGM (generative model by TencentAI4S). Use this skill when: (1) Designing nanobody (VHH) CDR loops against a target, (2) Designing full antibody (heavy + light chain) CDRs, (3) Redesigning existing antibody CDRs, (4) Need antigen-conditioned antibody generation, (5) Generating…
Binder design ranking using ipSAE (interprotein Score from Aligned Errors). Use this skill when: (1) Ranking binder designs for experimental testing, (2) Filtering BindCraft or BoltzGen outputs, (3) Comparing AF2/AF3/Boltz predictions, (4) Predicting binding success rates, (5) Need better ranking than ipTM or iPAE.…