ena-database

ena-database is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AndyZhuang/Opentest. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,719 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ena-database, MIT.

A connection to the European Nucleotide Archive, a public collection of DNA and RNA sequence data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve sequences, raw sequencing reads, genome assemblies, annotations, studies, samples, or taxonomic data for genomics analysis.
Why use it?
It helps developers find and download biological sequence data without manually searching across archive pages and file servers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/andyzhuang/opentest/ena-database
Any agent
npx skills add AndyZhuang/Opentest --skill ena-database
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AndyZhuang/Opentest

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,719 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00043 $0.01719
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00860
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00172

Measured 6d ago against content hash 38c30e0ec5b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ena-database scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

response = requests.get(base_url, params=params)
Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to ena-database — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/labclaw/bio/ena-database/SKILL.md · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ENA Database

Overview

The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) is a comprehensive public repository for nucleotide sequence data and associated metadata. Access and query DNA/RNA sequences, raw reads, genome assemblies, and functional annotations through REST APIs and FTP for genomics and bioinformatics pipelines.

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be used when:

  • Retrieving nucleotide sequences or raw sequencing reads by accession
  • Searching for samples, studies, or assemblies by metadata criteria
  • Downloading FASTQ files or genome assemblies for analysis
  • Querying taxonomic information for organisms
  • Accessing sequence annotations and functional data
  • Integrating ENA data into bioinformatics pipelines
  • Performing cross-reference searches to related databases
  • Bulk downloading datasets via FTP or Aspera

Core Capabilities

1. Data Types and Structure

ENA organizes data into hierarchical object types:

Studies/Projects - Group related data and control release dates. Studies are the primary unit for citing archived data.

Samples - Represent units of biomaterial from which sequencing libraries were produced. Samples must be registered before submitting most data types.

Raw Reads - Consist of:

  • Experiments: Metadata about sequencing methods, library preparation, and instrument details
  • Runs: References to data files containing raw sequencing reads from a single sequencing run

Assemblies - Genome, transcriptome, metagenome, or metatranscriptome assemblies at various completion levels.

Sequences - Assembled and annotated sequences stored in the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database, including coding/non-coding regions and functional annotations.

Analyses - Results from computational analyses of sequence data.

Taxonomy Records - Taxonomic information including lineage and rank.

2. Programmatic Access

ENA provides multiple REST APIs for data access. Consult references/api_reference.md for detailed endpoint documentation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 204 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 38c30e0ec5b6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ena-database is a skill published in the GitHub repository AndyZhuang/Opentest (22 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,719 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 86% identical to ena-database, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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