cobrapy

A Python library for modeling how substances move through a cell’s metabolism. It uses constraint-based models, which describe possible chemical reactions and limits, to simulate cellular behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to load or build genome-scale metabolic models, run flux balance analysis, test gene or reaction knockouts, sample possible reaction rates, and design growth media. It supports common model formats such as SBML, JSON, and YAML.
Why use it?
It lets researchers study metabolism computationally without measuring every reaction directly in an experiment. It can reveal infeasible models, important genes or reactions, and possible production limits.

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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/dralkh/seerai/cobrapy
Any agent
npx skills add dralkh/seerai --skill cobrapy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dralkh/seerai

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,591 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00038 $0.03591
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01795
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00718
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00359

Measured yesterday against content hash 56ba422b3036, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cobrapy 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to cobrapy — 4 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/cobrapy/SKILL.md · 495 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 495 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

COBRApy - Constraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis

Overview

COBRApy is a Python library for constraint-based reconstruction and analysis (COBRA) of metabolic models, essential for systems biology research. Work with genome-scale metabolic models, perform computational simulations of cellular metabolism, conduct metabolic engineering analyses, and predict phenotypic behaviors.

Version note: Examples target cobra 0.31.1 on PyPI (import cobra). Docs: cobrapy.readthedocs.io. Repo: opencobra/cobrapy.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Loading, building, or exporting genome-scale metabolic models (SBML, JSON, YAML)
  • Running FBA, pFBA, FVA, or flux sampling on COBRA models
  • Performing gene or reaction knockout screens and production envelope analysis
  • Designing or optimizing growth media and exchange constraints
  • Gap-filling infeasible models or validating model consistency

Installation

uv pip install "cobra==0.31.1"

MATLAB model I/O (optional):

uv pip install "cobra[array]==0.31.1"

COBRApy uses optlang for solvers. GLPK installs automatically via swiglpk. For large MILPs/QPs, cobra 0.29+ adds a hybrid solver (HIGHS/OSQP); model.solver = "osqp" now routes through hybrid and may error on plain LPs in a future release—prefer model.solver = "hybrid" when available.

Core Capabilities

COBRApy provides comprehensive tools organized into several key areas:

1. Model Management

Load existing models from repositories or files:

from cobra.io import load_model

# Bundled locally (no network): textbook, iJO1366, salmonella
model = load_model("textbook")      # alias for e_coli_core (95 reactions)
model = load_model("e_coli_core")   # same core E. coli model
model = load_model("iJO1366")       # genome-scale E. coli (bundled)
model = load_model("salmonella")    # Salmonella iYS1720 (bundled)

# Remote (BiGG / BioModels; requires network, cached after first fetch)
model = load_model("iML1515")       # E. coli genome-scale on BiGG

# Load from files
from cobra.io import read_sbml_model, load_json_model, load_yaml_model
model = read_sbml_model("path/to/model.xml")
model = load_json_model("path/to/model.json")
model = load_yaml_model("path/to/model.yml")

Read the full file on GitHub · 495 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday First seen · 495 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 56ba422b3036

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cobrapy is a skill published in the GitHub repository dralkh/seerai (77 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 3,591 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to cobrapy, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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