protein-ligand-binding-analysis-plip

protein-ligand-binding-analysis-plip is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PharMolix/OpenBioMed. It costs 102 tokens per session (872 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A protein-structure analysis workflow using PLIP, a tool that identifies how a small molecule interacts with a protein in a PDB structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify hydrogen bonds, hydrophobic contacts, π-stacking, salt bridges, and water bridges, compare binding patterns, and create interaction reports or 3D visuals.
Why use it?
It turns a 3D protein-ligand structure into a clear list of contacts that may explain how the molecule binds.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python examples/basic_example.py --pdb tmp/pdb_1m17.pdb --output ./results/.

Good fit Use it to identify hydrogen bonds, hydrophobic contacts, π-stacking, salt bridges, and water bridges, compare binding patterns, and create interaction reports or 3D visuals.

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About the project

OpenBioMed is an agent platform and toolkit collection for biomedical research and drug discovery, covering areas such as molecular design, protein analysis, and single-cell data analysis. It is intended for researchers and provides the biomedical skills listed in the catalogue as workflows for Claude Code.

PharMolix/OpenBioMed · 1,106 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PharMolix/OpenBioMed
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pharmolix/openbiomed/protein-ligand-binding-analysis-plip

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 872 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
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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 $0.00102 $0.00872
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00436
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00087

Measured 12d ago against content hash a6cc8ef4bc42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

protein-ligand-binding-analysis-plip 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 12d ago.

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

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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/protein-ligand-binding-analysis-plip/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Protein-Ligand Binding Analysis with PLIP

Analyze protein-ligand interactions in PDB structures, generate comprehensive interaction reports, and create 3D visualizations.

When to Use

  • Analyzing binding modes from crystal structures or docking results
  • Identifying key interactions driving binding affinity
  • Comparing ligand binding patterns across multiple structures
  • Generating publication-ready interaction visualizations

Workflow

Step 1: Load PDB and Identify Ligands

from plip.structure.preparation import PDBComplex

complex = PDBComplex()
complex.load_pdb(pdb_file)

# Filter ligands by molecular weight (exclude ions/cofactors, MW > 150 Da)
ligands = []
for lig in complex.ligands:
    if lig.mol.molwt > 150:  # OpenBabel molecule object
        ligands.append(lig)
        complex.characterize_complex(lig)

Step 2: Analyze Interactions

from plip.exchange.report import BindingSiteReport

complex.analyze()

for key, interactions in complex.interaction_sets.items():
    report = BindingSiteReport(interactions)
    report_lines = report.generate_txt()
    # Parse interaction data from report_lines

Step 3: Generate Visualizations

from plip.basic.remote import VisualizerData
from plip.visualization.visualize import visualize_in_pymol
from plip.basic import config

config.PICS = True
config.OUTPATH = output_dir
config.BACKGROUND = "white"
config.CARTOON = True

for key in complex.interaction_sets:
    data = VisualizerData(complex, key)
    visualize_in_pymol(data)

Expected Outputs

Output Description
Interaction Report Markdown summary of all interaction types per ligand
Visualization Images PNG files showing 3D interaction diagrams
Summary Statistics Counts of H-bonds, hydrophobic, π-stacking, etc.

Interaction Types Reported

Type Description
Hydrogen bonds H-bonds with ligand/protein as donor
Hydrophobic contacts Non-polar interactions
Water bridges Water-mediated interactions
π-stacking Aromatic ring interactions
Salt bridges Ionic interactions
Halogen bonds Halogen-mediated contacts
Metal complexes Metal coordination

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 12d ago First seen · 123 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A a6cc8ef4bc42

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protein-ligand-binding-analysis-plip is a skill published in the GitHub repository PharMolix/OpenBioMed (1,106 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 872 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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