omics-dataset-retrieval

omics-dataset-retrieval is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hossainlab/omics-skills. It costs 156 tokens per session (2,250 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for finding public omics datasets—data about genes, proteins, metabolism, cells, and related biological measurements—for a disease, trait, gene, or biological process. It removes duplicates, classifies results, checks relevance, and produces a catalogue and summary.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for building dataset lists by topic, omics type, organism, or publication year, with relevance checks and outputs such as CSV and Markdown summaries.
Why use it?
It helps researchers search multiple public repositories in a consistent way instead of manually sorting scattered results. It catalogues dataset information but does not download raw files or analyse the data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit It is for building dataset lists by topic, omics type, organism, or publication year, with relevance checks and outputs such as CSV and Markdown summaries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hossainlab/omics-skills/omics-dataset-retrieval
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 hossainlab/omics-skills --skill omics-dataset-retrieval
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hossainlab/omics-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 156 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,250 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 $0.00156 $0.02250
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.01125
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00450
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00225

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1b0926348774, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

omics-dataset-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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/omics_retrieval.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.

skills/omics-dataset-retrieval/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Omics Dataset Retrieval

Build a deduplicated, relevance-audited catalog of public omics datasets for a disease, phenotype, gene, or biological process. Query every reachable public repository, classify each hit by omics type, score its relevance, and emit a CSV catalog + Markdown summary (+ optional landscape figure).

Boundary: catalog metadata only. This skill does not download raw data files and does not perform downstream analysis.

Worked examples (Alzheimer's, BCL11A/erythroid, PDAC) are in references/examples.md.

Inputs

Parameter Type Description
disease_or_topic string Disease, phenotype, gene, or process (e.g. "sickle cell disease", "BCL11A")
synonyms list[str] Alternative names, abbreviations, gene symbols (e.g. ["SCD","SCA","HbSS"])
omics_types list[str] or "all" Restrict to omics types, or "all" (default)
organism string "all" (default) — human, mouse, and all others. Restrict to "human"/"mouse" only if explicitly requested
year_min int Earliest publication year (default: no limit)
output_dir path Where to write outputs (default: /mnt/results/)

Outputs

File Description
<disease>_omics_datasets_MASTER.csv Full catalog with all metadata + relevance labels
<disease>_omics_datasets_VALIDATED.csv Filtered to CORE/DIRECT + ADJACENT only
<disease>_omics_summary.md Counts by omics type / repository, top datasets, limitations
<disease>_omics_landscape.png Optional overview: donut + repository bar + timeline

Workflow

Step 1 — Ask clarification questions (MANDATORY before any search)

Not optional. Before querying, use AskUserQuestion to collect the items below in a single call. Skip only questions already answered in the user's initial message; always ask the rest. Answers materially change which repositories run, result counts, and relevance tuning.

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 170 lines · 156 tokens per session scan A 1b0926348774

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omics-dataset-retrieval is a skill published in the GitHub repository hossainlab/omics-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 156 tokens to every session and 2,250 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.

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