reactome-database

reactome-database is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,779 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of reactome-database, MIT.

A service and Python client for Reactome, a curated database of biological pathways and molecular reactions. It links genes and proteins to the processes in which they participate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to query pathways, map genes or proteins, study molecular interactions and disease pathways, and perform pathway enrichment or expression analysis.
Why use it?
It saves you from manually collecting pathway relationships when interpreting biological data. It can show which biological processes are overrepresented in a gene or protein list.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to query pathways, map genes or proteins, study molecular interactions and disease pathways, and perform pathway enrichment or expression analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop/reactome-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 reactome-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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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,779 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. 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 $0.00035 $0.01779
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00890
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00356
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00178

Measured 4d ago against content hash b2ca7137cc4d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

reactome-database scanned grade B with 2 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 4d ago.

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

Sends data to an external URLmediumData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

response = requests.post( "https://reactome.org/AnalysisService/identifiers/",

Makes network callslowCapability

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

response = requests.get("https://reactome.org/ContentService/data/database/version")
Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to reactome-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/reactome-database/SKILL.md · 273 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 273 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reactome Database

Overview

Reactome is a free, open-source, curated pathway database with 2,825+ human pathways. Query biological pathways, perform overrepresentation and expression analysis, map genes to pathways, explore molecular interactions via REST API and Python client for systems biology research.

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be used when:

  • Performing pathway enrichment analysis on gene or protein lists
  • Analyzing gene expression data to identify relevant biological pathways
  • Querying specific pathway information, reactions, or molecular interactions
  • Mapping genes or proteins to biological pathways and processes
  • Exploring disease-related pathways and mechanisms
  • Visualizing analysis results in the Reactome Pathway Browser
  • Conducting comparative pathway analysis across species

Core Capabilities

Reactome provides two main API services and a Python client library:

1. Content Service - Data Retrieval

Query and retrieve biological pathway data, molecular interactions, and entity information.

Common operations:

  • Retrieve pathway information and hierarchies
  • Query specific entities (proteins, reactions, complexes)
  • Get participating molecules in pathways
  • Access database version and metadata
  • Explore pathway compartments and locations

API Base URL: https://reactome.org/ContentService

2. Analysis Service - Pathway Analysis

Perform computational analysis on gene lists and expression data.

Analysis types:

  • Overrepresentation Analysis: Identify statistically significant pathways from gene/protein lists
  • Expression Data Analysis: Analyze gene expression datasets to find relevant pathways
  • Species Comparison: Compare pathway data across different organisms

API Base URL: https://reactome.org/AnalysisService

3. reactome2py Python Package

Python client library that wraps Reactome API calls for easier programmatic access.

Installation:

uv pip install reactome2py

Read the full file on GitHub · 273 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. 4d ago First seen · 273 lines · 35 tokens per session scan B b2ca7137cc4d

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reactome-database is a skill published in the GitHub repository silverstein/claude-scientific-skills-desktop (22 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,779 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (sends data to an external url, makes network calls). It is 97% identical to reactome-database, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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