bio-clinical-databases-myvariant-queries

bio-clinical-databases-myvariant-queries is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 86 tokens per session (4,906 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for querying myvariant.info, a service that combines annotations from many genetic databases, including ClinVar, gnomAD, dbSNP, COSMIC, CADD, and CIViC.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to annotate individual variants or batches with clinical interpretations, population frequencies, cancer data, and computational prediction scores.
Why use it?
It avoids maintaining separate queries and response handling for each annotation source while retaining source-version information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to annotate individual variants or batches with clinical interpretations, population frequencies, cancer data, and computational prediction scores.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gptomics/bioskills/myvariant-queries
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 myvariant-queries
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GPTomics/bioSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,906 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 $0.00086 $0.04906
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.02453
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00981
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00491

Measured 7d ago against content hash a75eac92578d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-clinical-databases-myvariant-queries 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (examples/query_myvariant.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:

clinical-databases/myvariant-queries/SKILL.md · 318 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 318 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: myvariant 1.0.0+, requests 2.31+, pandas 2.2+. myvariant.info aggregates >=21 sources; the operative version of each source is queryable via the _meta field and the /v1/metadata endpoint.

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. dbNSFP version drift is the dominant staleness vector: AlphaMissense was added to dbNSFP v4.4 (~2024); querying dbnsfp.alphamissense.score returns whatever version of dbNSFP is currently loaded; check _meta.src.dbnsfp.version.

MyVariant.info Queries; Aggregated Annotation

'Annotate my variants with ClinVar + gnomAD + CADD + AlphaMissense in one batch' -> Query the BioThings myvariant.info aggregator with field selection and version tracking, then parse nested responses.

  • Python: myvariant.MyVariantInfo().getvariant(hgvs_or_rsid, fields=['clinvar', 'gnomad_exome', 'dbnsfp'])
  • Python (batch): mv.getvariants(ids_list, fields=...); up to 1000 IDs per request
  • Python (search): mv.query('clinvar.gene.symbol:BRCA1 AND clinvar.clinical_significance:Pathogenic')
  • REST: GET https://myvariant.info/v1/variant/{hgvs_or_id}?fields=...
  • Bulk: POST https://myvariant.info/v1/variant with comma-separated IDs

BioThings Architecture (Lelong 2022 Bioinformatics)

myvariant.info is one of three flagship BioThings APIs (with MyGene.info and MyChem.info). All three share the BioThings SDK, which auto-deploys an Elasticsearch index from heterogeneous source files via per-source dataloaders. The 2022 paper formalized the SDK; the architecture itself is older (Xin 2016 Genome Biol).

  • Elasticsearch-backed: queries use Lucene operators (AND, OR, NOT, range like dbnsfp.cadd.phred:>20)
  • Dotted-field-name syntax for nested JSON
  • The _id field is canonical HGVS-g per record (e.g., chr7:g.117199644G>A)

Read the full file on GitHub · 318 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. 7d ago First seen · 318 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A a75eac92578d

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bio-clinical-databases-myvariant-queries is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,199 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 4,906 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 2026-09-03.

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