bio-molecular-descriptors

bio-molecular-descriptors is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 114 tokens per session (5,097 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A chemistry toolkit for turning molecules into numerical fingerprints and property measurements. These representations help software compare molecules or use them in prediction models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare molecules for similarity searches, QSAR models (models linking structure to measured properties), virtual screening, and machine-learning workflows.
Why use it?
It removes the need to choose and configure many different molecular representations by hand. It also clarifies whether fingerprints record matching bits or occurrence counts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to prepare molecules for similarity searches, QSAR models (models linking structure to measured properties), virtual screening, and machine-learning workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gptomics/bioskills/molecular-descriptors
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.

Any agent
npx skills add GPTomics/bioSkills --skill molecular-descriptors
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GPTomics/bioSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,097 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 $0.00114 $0.05097
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.02549
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.01019
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00510

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1102b893c858, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-molecular-descriptors 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (examples/calculate_descriptors.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

chemoinformatics/molecular-descriptors/SKILL.md · 259 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 259 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: RDKit 2024.09+, numpy 1.26+, pandas 2.2+, map4 1.1+ (MAP4), mhfp 1.9+. Use mapchiral separately when the stereochemistry-aware MAP4C fingerprint is intended.

Before using code patterns, verify installed versions match. If versions differ:

  • Python: pip show <package> then help(module.function) to check signatures

If code throws ImportError, AttributeError, or TypeError, introspect the installed package and adapt the example to match the actual API rather than retrying.

Molecular Descriptors

Featurize molecules for similarity search, QSAR, virtual screening, or ML. Fingerprint performance is dataset- and objective-dependent: ECFP4 is a strong drug-like baseline, atom-pair and topological-torsion fingerprints expose longer-range topology, MAP4/MHFP6 target broader chemical-space searches, and 3D conformer-based descriptors are needed when shape and stereochemistry matter.

For canonicalization before featurization, see chemoinformatics/molecular-standardization. For 3D-only descriptors, see chemoinformatics/conformer-generation.

Fingerprint Taxonomy

Fingerprint Type Radius/Path Bits Use case Fails when
Morgan (ECFP) Circular r=2 (ECFP4), r=3 (ECFP6) 2048 typical Drug-like similarity, ML default Loses long-range topology; bit collisions at low nBits
FCFP Functional Morgan r=2 default 2048 Pharmacophore-aware similarity Same caveats as ECFP; less specific
MACCS Substructure key 166 fixed bits 167 Quick fingerprint, drug-likeness Too sparse for large diverse libraries
RDKit FP Path/subgraph-based paths and branched subgraphs up to 7 bonds by default 2048 RDKit-native ECFP alternative Drug-like only; not optimal for scaffold hopping
AtomPair Pair + topological distance All atom pairs 2048 Long-range topological similarity Slower than ECFP; harder to interpret
TopologicalTorsion 4-atom torsion All TT 2048 Path-pattern similarity Like AP, slower than ECFP
Avalon Substructure + atom pairs Mixed 512/1024 Fast similarity Less standard; older
MAP4 (MinHashed atom-pair) MinHash atom-pair r=1,2 1024/2048 Biological + metabolite diversity map4 library required; slower hash
MHFP6 (MinHash) MinHash ECFP-like r=3 (diam 6) 2048 Large-library nearest-neighbor with a compatible MinHash/LSH index Different distance semantics from folded-bit Tanimoto
Pharm2D 2D pharmacophore feature pairs/triplets sparse Pharmacophore search Sparse, slower

Read the full file on GitHub · 259 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. 10d ago First seen · 259 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A 1102b893c858

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bio-molecular-descriptors is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,199 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 5,097 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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