gwas-database

gwas-database is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop. It costs 50 tokens per session (4,753 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gwas-database, MIT.

A lookup tool for the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog, a database of genetic studies linking DNA variants with diseases and other traits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search by variant ID, gene, disease, or trait and retrieve associations, p-values, effect sizes, study information, or available summary statistics.
Why use it?
It saves time when finding published variant associations and study details instead of searching research papers manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to search by variant ID, gene, disease, or trait and retrieve associations, p-values, effect sizes, study information, or available summary statistics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop/gwas-database
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 silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop --skill gwas-database
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,753 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00050 $0.04753
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.02377
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00951
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00475

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0d914b28f570, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gwas-database scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 11d ago.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

response = requests.get(url, headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"})
Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to gwas-database — 7 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.

corpus/gwas-database/SKILL.md · 603 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 603 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GWAS Catalog Database

Overview

The GWAS Catalog is a comprehensive repository of published genome-wide association studies maintained by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). The catalog contains curated SNP-trait associations from thousands of GWAS publications, including genetic variants, associated traits and diseases, p-values, effect sizes, and full summary statistics for many studies.

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be used when queries involve:

  • Genetic variant associations: Finding SNPs associated with diseases or traits
  • SNP lookups: Retrieving information about specific genetic variants (rs IDs)
  • Trait/disease searches: Discovering genetic associations for phenotypes
  • Gene associations: Finding variants in or near specific genes
  • GWAS summary statistics: Accessing complete genome-wide association data
  • Study metadata: Retrieving publication and cohort information
  • Population genetics: Exploring ancestry-specific associations
  • Polygenic risk scores: Identifying variants for risk prediction models
  • Functional genomics: Understanding variant effects and genomic context
  • Systematic reviews: Comprehensive literature synthesis of genetic associations

Core Capabilities

1. Understanding GWAS Catalog Data Structure

The GWAS Catalog is organized around four core entities:

  • Studies: GWAS publications with metadata (PMID, author, cohort details)
  • Associations: SNP-trait associations with statistical evidence (p ≤ 5×10⁻⁸)
  • Variants: Genetic markers (SNPs) with genomic coordinates and alleles
  • Traits: Phenotypes and diseases (mapped to EFO ontology terms)

Key Identifiers:

  • Study accessions: GCST IDs (e.g., GCST001234)
  • Variant IDs: rs numbers (e.g., rs7903146) or variant_id format
  • Trait IDs: EFO terms (e.g., EFO_0001360 for type 2 diabetes)
  • Gene symbols: HGNC approved names (e.g., TCF7L2)

Read the full file on GitHub · 603 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 603 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 0d914b28f570

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gwas-database is a skill published in the GitHub repository silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop (22 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 4,753 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 97% identical to gwas-database, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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