tooluniverse-expression-data-retrieval

tooluniverse-expression-data-retrieval is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AndyZhuang/Opentest. It costs 88 tokens per session (2,543 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A data-retrieval skill for finding gene-expression and other omics experiments in ArrayExpress and BioStudies, public repositories for biological research data. It resolves unclear gene names, checks experiment quality, and creates structured dataset reports with metadata and download links.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for experiments by gene, tissue, condition, organism, or accession number, inspect samples and metadata, assess dataset quality, and prepare a profile for download or further analysis.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work and ambiguity involved in finding the right public dataset and judging whether it is suitable for analysis.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to search for experiments by gene, tissue, condition, organism, or accession number, inspect samples and metadata, assess dataset quality, and prepare a profile for download or further analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/andyzhuang/opentest/tooluniverse-expression-data-retrieval
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add AndyZhuang/Opentest --skill tooluniverse-expression-data-retrieval
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AndyZhuang/Opentest

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,543 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00088 $0.02543
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01272
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00509
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00254

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1c4e6841b9cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tooluniverse-expression-data-retrieval scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 11d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/labclaw/bio/tooluniverse-expression-data-retrieval/SKILL.md · 390 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 390 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Gene Expression & Omics Data Retrieval

Retrieve gene expression experiments and multi-omics datasets with proper disambiguation and quality assessment.

IMPORTANT: Always use English terms in tool calls (gene names, tissue names, condition descriptions), even if the user writes in another language. Only try original-language terms as a fallback if English returns no results. Respond in the user's language.

Workflow Overview

Phase 0: Clarify Query (if ambiguous)
    ↓
Phase 1: Disambiguate Gene/Condition
    ↓
Phase 2: Search & Retrieve (Internal)
    ↓
Phase 3: Report Dataset Profile

Phase 0: Clarification (When Needed)

Ask the user ONLY if:

  • Gene name is ambiguous (e.g., "p53" → TP53 or MDM2 studies?)
  • Tissue/condition unclear for comparative studies
  • Organism not specified for non-human research

Skip clarification for:

  • Specific accession numbers (E-MTAB-, E-GEOD-, S-BSST*)
  • Clear disease/tissue + organism combinations
  • Explicit platform requests (RNA-seq, microarray)

Phase 1: Query Disambiguation

1.1 Gene Name Resolution

If searching by gene, first resolve official identifiers:

from tooluniverse import ToolUniverse
tu = ToolUniverse()
tu.load_tools()

# For gene-focused searches, resolve official symbol first
# This helps construct better search queries
# Example: "p53" → "TP53" (official HGNC symbol)

Gene Disambiguation Checklist:

  • Official gene symbol identified (HGNC for human, MGI for mouse)
  • Common aliases noted for search expansion
  • Species confirmed

1.2 Construct Search Strategy

User Query Type Search Strategy
Specific accession Direct retrieval
Gene + condition "[gene] [condition]" + species filter
Disease only "[disease]" + species filter
Technology-specific Add platform keywords (RNA-seq, microarray)

Phase 2: Data Retrieval (Internal)

Search silently. Do NOT narrate the process.

2.1 Search Experiments

Read the full file on GitHub · 390 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. 11d ago First seen · 390 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 1c4e6841b9cd

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tooluniverse-expression-data-retrieval is a skill published in the GitHub repository AndyZhuang/Opentest (22 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 2,543 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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