biopython

biopython is a skill for Claude Code from userInner/SKILLS. It costs 76 tokens per session (3,960 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of biopython, Apache-2.0.

A Python toolkit for working with biological data such as DNA, RNA, proteins, biological files, and evolutionary trees.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps process sequences, read formats such as FASTA and GenBank, access NCBI and PubMed, run BLAST workflows, analyse structures, and build phylogenetic trees.
Why use it?
It removes the need to build custom parsers and data-handling code for common bioinformatics tasks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit It helps process sequences, read formats such as FASTA and GenBank, access NCBI and PubMed, run BLAST workflows, analyse structures, and build phylogenetic trees.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/userinner/skills/biopython-k-dense-ai-scientific-agent-skills
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add userInner/SKILLS --skill biopython-k-dense-ai-scientific-agent-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/userInner/SKILLS

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,960 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 100% 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 $0.00076 $0.03960
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.01980
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00792
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00396

Measured 8d ago against content hash 81eab1bd7db6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

biopython 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 8d 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.

from urllib.error import HTTPError
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to biopython — 18 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.

community-skills/engineering/biopython--k-dense-ai-scientific-agent-skills/SKILL.md · 473 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 473 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Biopython: Computational Molecular Biology in Python

Overview

Biopython is a comprehensive set of freely available Python tools for biological computation. It provides functionality for sequence manipulation, file I/O, database access, structural bioinformatics, phylogenetics, and many other bioinformatics tasks. The current version is Biopython 1.87 (released 30 March 2026). It supports Python 3.10-3.14 and PyPy3.10, and requires NumPy. Biopython 1.87 also addresses CVE-2025-68463 in Bio.Entrez.Parser when parsing untrusted files, so prefer 1.87+ for workflows that parse externally supplied Entrez XML.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Working with biological sequences (DNA, RNA, or protein)
  • Reading, writing, or converting biological file formats (FASTA, GenBank, FASTQ, PDB, mmCIF, etc.)
  • Accessing NCBI databases (GenBank, PubMed, Protein, Gene, etc.) via Entrez
  • Running BLAST searches or parsing BLAST results
  • Performing sequence alignments (pairwise or multiple sequence alignments)
  • Analyzing protein structures from PDB files
  • Creating, manipulating, or visualizing phylogenetic trees
  • Finding sequence motifs or analyzing motif patterns
  • Calculating sequence statistics (GC content, molecular weight, melting temperature, etc.)
  • Performing structural bioinformatics tasks
  • Working with population genetics data
  • Any other computational molecular biology task

Core Capabilities

Biopython is organized into modular sub-packages, each addressing specific bioinformatics domains:

  1. Sequence Handling - Bio.Seq and Bio.SeqIO for sequence manipulation and file I/O
  2. Alignment Analysis - Bio.Align and Bio.AlignIO for pairwise and multiple sequence alignments
  3. Database Access - Bio.Entrez for programmatic access to NCBI databases
  4. BLAST Operations - Bio.Blast for running and parsing BLAST searches
  5. Structural Bioinformatics - Bio.PDB for working with 3D protein structures
  6. Phylogenetics - Bio.Phylo for phylogenetic tree manipulation and visualization
  7. Advanced Features - Motifs, population genetics, sequence utilities, and more

Read the full file on GitHub · 473 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 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. 8d ago First seen · 473 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 81eab1bd7db6

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biopython is a skill published in the GitHub repository userInner/SKILLS (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 3,960 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 100% identical to biopython, differing in 18 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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