metabolomics-workbench-database

metabolomics-workbench-database is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,329 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of metabolomics-workbench-database, MIT.

A programmatic interface to the NIH Metabolomics Workbench, a repository of metabolite research studies and measurement data.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps retrieve metabolite structures and identifiers, standardize names, search by mass-to-charge values, inspect studies, and support biomarker research.
Why use it?
It provides one place to search metabolite information, study records, and results from mass spectrometry and NMR experiments.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps retrieve metabolite structures and identifiers, standardize names, search by mass-to-charge values, inspect studies, and support biomarker research.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop/metabolomics-workbench-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 metabolomics-workbench-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 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,329 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 $0.00053 $0.02329
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01164
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00466
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00233

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4ea74ad8c736, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

metabolomics-workbench-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 7d 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('https://www.metabolomicsworkbench.org/rest/compound/pubchem_cid/5281365/all/json')
Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to metabolomics-workbench-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/metabolomics-workbench-database/SKILL.md · 254 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 254 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Metabolomics Workbench Database

Overview

The Metabolomics Workbench is a comprehensive NIH Common Fund-sponsored platform hosted at UCSD that serves as the primary repository for metabolomics research data. It provides programmatic access to over 4,200 processed studies (3,790+ publicly available), standardized metabolite nomenclature through RefMet, and powerful search capabilities across multiple analytical platforms (GC-MS, LC-MS, NMR).

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be used when querying metabolite structures, accessing study data, standardizing nomenclature, performing mass spectrometry searches, or retrieving gene/protein-metabolite associations through the Metabolomics Workbench REST API.

Core Capabilities

1. Querying Metabolite Structures and Data

Access comprehensive metabolite information including structures, identifiers, and cross-references to external databases.

Key operations:

  • Retrieve compound data by various identifiers (PubChem CID, InChI Key, KEGG ID, HMDB ID, etc.)
  • Download molecular structures as MOL files or PNG images
  • Access standardized compound classifications
  • Cross-reference between different metabolite databases

Example queries:

import requests

# Get compound information by PubChem CID
response = requests.get('https://www.metabolomicsworkbench.org/rest/compound/pubchem_cid/5281365/all/json')

# Download molecular structure as PNG
response = requests.get('https://www.metabolomicsworkbench.org/rest/compound/regno/11/png')

# Get compound name by registry number
response = requests.get('https://www.metabolomicsworkbench.org/rest/compound/regno/11/name/json')

2. Accessing Study Metadata and Experimental Results

Query metabolomics studies by various criteria and retrieve complete experimental datasets.

Key operations:

  • Search studies by metabolite, institute, investigator, or title
  • Access study summaries, experimental factors, and analysis details
  • Retrieve complete experimental data in various formats
  • Download mwTab format files for complete study information
  • Query untargeted metabolomics data

Read the full file on GitHub · 254 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. 7d ago First seen · 254 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 4ea74ad8c736

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metabolomics-workbench-database is a skill published in the GitHub repository silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop (22 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,329 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 metabolomics-workbench-database, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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