Molecular and Cellular Biology

Installable Claude components for genomics, transcriptomics, single-cell analysis, gene regulation, CRISPR design, cell imaging, and other molecular- and cell-scale biology applications.

10x Genomics Cloud MCP

MCP server · 10x Genomics · GA

Conversational orchestration of 10x Cloud single-cell, immune-profiling, and spatial-transcriptomics analyses.

ARCHS4 (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Query ARCHS4 REST API for uniformly processed RNA-seq expression, tissue patterns, co-expression across 1M+ human/mouse samples.

AlphaFold MCP Server

MCP server · Augmented Nature · GA

MCP server exposing the EBI AlphaFold Protein Structure Database for structure retrieval, pLDDT analysis, comparison, and PyMOL/ChimeraX export.

AnnData (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Claude skill teaching the AnnData annotated-data-matrix format used by Scanpy and scvi-tools for single-cell and other observation/feature matrices.

Anthropic PubMed Connector

MCP server · Anthropic · GA

Anthropic-managed NCBI literature search via PubMed and PubMed Central.

Arboreto (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Claude skill for gene-regulatory-network inference with Arboreto — GRNBoost2 / GENIE3 tree-based regression over bulk or single-cell expression, distributed via Dask.

BCFtools (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

CLI for VCF/BCF: filter, merge, annotate, query, normalize, compute stats.

BEDTools (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Genomic interval ops on BED/BAM/GFF/VCF.

BGPT Paper Search (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Search scientific papers and retrieve structured experimental data extracted from full-text studies via the BGPT MCP server.

BRENDA (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

BRENDA Enzyme DB SOAP/REST queries: kinetic parameters (Km, Vmax, kcat, Ki), EC classes, substrate specificity, inhibitors, cofactors, organism data.

BWA-MEM2 (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Fast short-read DNA aligner for WGS/WES/ChIP-seq.

Bakta (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Annotate bacterial and archaeal genomes and plasmids with Bakta’s Prodigal/HMM/diamond pipeline.

Benchling (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Benchling Python SDK and REST API integration for registry entities, inventory, ELN entries, workflows, Benchling Apps, and Data Warehouse queries.

BioContextAI Knowledgebase MCP

MCP server · BioContextAI · GA

Read-only MCP that unifies 14+ biomedical databases (Antibody Registry, UniProt, STRING, AlphaFold, KEGG, Open Targets) for immune and protein-context queries.

BioMCP

MCP server · GenomOncology · GA

Unified biomedical lookup across PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, MyVariant, and OpenFDA.

BioPython (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Comprehensive molecular biology toolkit.

BioRender Connector

MCP server · BioRender · GA

Scientific-figure assembly from the 50,000+ BioRender icon and template library.

BioServices (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Unified Python interface to 40+ bioinformatics services.

Biomni (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · Stanford SNAP Lab · GA

General-purpose biomedical AI agent that plans and runs multi-step research workflows across genomics, drug discovery, and clinical analysis.

Bulk RNA-seq (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

End-to-end bulk RNA-seq orchestrator — takes raw FASTQ reads through QC and trimming (FastQC, fastp/Trim Galore), alignment and quantification (STAR, Salmon, featureCounts), assembles a …

CNVkit (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Detect somatic CNVs from WES/WGS/targeted BAMs (CNVkit v0.9.x).

COBRApy (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Claude skill driving COBRApy for constraint-based metabolic modelling — FBA, FVA, gene knockouts, flux sampling, gapfilling on SBML genome-scale models.

COSMIC (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Query COSMIC for cancer somatic mutations, gene census, mutational signatures, drug resistance variants.

CellChat (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Infer and visualize intercellular communication from scRNA-seq with CellChat (R).

CellRank-MCP

MCP server · scmcphub · GA

MCP server wrapping CellRank so Claude can model cell fate and trajectories from single-cell data in natural language.

CellTypist (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Automated scRNA-seq cell type annotation via pre-trained logistic regression.

Cellpose (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

DL cell/nucleus segmentation for fluorescence and brightfield microscopy.

Cellxgene Census (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Claude skill for querying the CZ CELLxGENE Discover census — 50M+ standardized single-cell observations across 1,000+ datasets via TileDB-SOMA, with AnnData / Scanpy integration.

ClinVar (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Query NCBI ClinVar via E-utilities for variant clinical significance, pathogenicity, disease associations.

Composer

Plugin · Scripps AI Enablement · Beta

Turns a plain-language scientific problem into a grounded, runnable Claude solution composed from this catalog, reusing recipes and recommending autonomous systems.

Consensus Plugin

Claude Code Plugin · Consensus · GA

Consensus.app MCP plugin bringing AI-powered scientific literature search and evidence synthesis into Claude across all research areas.

DESeq2 (R/Bioconductor) (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Bulk RNA-seq DE with R/Bioconductor DESeq2.

DNAnexus (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

DNAnexus cloud genomics platform.

Database Lookup (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Search 78 public scientific, biomedical, materials science, and economic databases via REST APIs.

DepMap (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Claude skill for querying the Cancer Dependency Map — CRISPR Chronos gene-effect scores, PRISM drug sensitivity, mutation, expression, and CN data across cancer cell lines.

ENA (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

ENA REST API for sequences, reads, assemblies, and annotations.

ENCODE (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

ENCODE Portal REST API for regulatory genomics: TF ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq/DNase-seq peaks, histone marks, and RNA-seq across 1000+ cell types.

ETE Toolkit (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Phylogenetic tree toolkit (ETE).

Ensembl MCP Server

MCP server · effieklimi · GA

MCP server over the Ensembl REST API for gene/transcript lookup, sequence retrieval, variant consequences, comparative genomics, and assembly lift-over.

GATK (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

GATK Best Practices for germline SNP/indel calling from WGS/WES BAMs.

GSEApy (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

GSEA and over-representation analysis (ORA) for RNA-seq and proteomics.

GWAS Catalog (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog REST API for SNP-trait associations from published GWAS.

Ginkgo Cloud Lab (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Submit and manage protocols on Ginkgo Bioworks Cloud Lab (cloud.ginkgo.bio), a web-based interface for autonomous lab execution on Reconfigurable Automation Carts (RACs).

HMDB (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Parse HMDB (Human Metabolome Database) local XML for metabolite info, chemical properties, biological context, disease links, spectra, and cross-DB mapping.

HOMER (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

De novo and known TF motif enrichment in ChIP-seq/ATAC-seq peaks via HOMER.

Harmony (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Harmony batch correction for scRNA-seq and other omics.

Human Protein Atlas MCP Server

MCP server · Augmented Nature · GA

Query the Human Protein Atlas — tissue/blood/brain expression, subcellular localization, cancer markers, and antibody validation/staining data.

Hypothesis Generation (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Structured hypothesis formulation from observations.

JASPAR (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

JASPAR 2024 TF binding profiles via REST API and pyJASPAR.

KEGG Database (REST API) (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

KEGG REST API (academic only).

KEGG Pathway Analysis (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Guide to KEGG pathway enrichment for DEG results.

LIANA-MCP

MCP server · scmcphub · GA

MCP server wrapping LIANA so Claude can infer and plot cell-cell communication from single-cell data in natural language.

LabArchives (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Electronic lab notebook API integration.

LaminDB (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Working with LaminDB, the open-source lineage-native lakehouse for biological datasets and models.

LatchBio (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Latch platform for bioinformatics workflows.

Literature Review (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.).

MACS3 (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Poisson-model peak caller for ChIP-seq/ATAC-seq BAMs.

MOFA+ (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Multi-Omics Factor Analysis v2 (MOFA+) with mofapy2.

MaxQuant (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

MaxQuant + Perseus proteomics pipeline: run MaxQuant for LFQ and SILAC; parse proteinGroups.txt in Python; filter contaminants/decoys; log2 + median-normalize; impute MNAR; t-test with …

Metabolomics Workbench (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Query Metabolomics Workbench REST API (4,200+ NIH studies) for metabolite ID, study discovery, RefMet standardization, m/z precursor searches, and gene/protein annotations.

Monarch Initiative (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Monarch Initiative knowledge graph REST API for disease-gene-phenotype associations and cross-species orthology.

Mouse Phenome Database (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Retrieve mouse phenotype data from the Jackson Laboratory Mouse Phenome Database (MPD) via its REST API.

MultiQC (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Aggregates QC from 150+ bioinformatics tools into one interactive HTML report.

NCBI GEO (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

NCBI GEO access via GEOparse and E-utilities.

NCBI Gene (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

NCBI Gene via E-utilities: curated records across 1M+ taxa.

OMERO (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Microscopy data management platform.

Omics Analysis Guide (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Three-tiered approach to omics data analysis (transcriptomics, proteomics) covering validated pipelines, standard workflows, and custom methods

Open Targets Plugin

Claude Code Plugin · Open Targets · GA

Official Open Targets MCP plugin giving Claude GraphQL access to target-disease associations, drug evidence, and target-prioritisation scores.

OpenCV (Bio-image) (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Computer vision for bio-image preprocessing, feature detection, real-time microscopy.

Opentrons (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Official Opentrons Protocol API for OT-2 and Flex robots.

PLINK2 (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

GWAS and population genetics tool.

PRIDE (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Search the PRIDE Archive v3 REST API for proteomics datasets: discover projects by keyword + faceted filters (organism, instrument, disease, software), fetch project metadata …

Paper Lookup (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Search 10 academic paper databases via REST APIs for research papers, preprints, and scholarly articles.

Pathway Enrichment (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Run pathway and gene-set enrichment analysis on gene lists or ranked gene data, then interpret the results.

Phylogenetics (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Build and analyze phylogenetic trees using MAFFT (multiple alignment), IQ-TREE 2 (maximum likelihood), and FastTree (fast NJ/ML).

Polars-Bio (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

High-performance genomic interval operations and bioinformatics file I/O on Polars DataFrames.

PrimeKG (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Query the Precision Medicine Knowledge Graph (PrimeKG) for multiscale biological data including genes, drugs, diseases, phenotypes, and more.

Prokka (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Annotate prokaryotic genomes (bacteria, archaea, viruses) via Prokka’s BLAST/HMM pipeline.

Protocols.io (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Integration with protocols.io API for managing scientific protocols.

PyDESeq2 (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Claude skill for bulk RNA-seq differential expression with PyDESeq2 — size factors, dispersion, Wald / LRT testing, BH-adjusted p-values.

PyImageJ / Fiji (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Python bridge to ImageJ2/Fiji for macros, plugins (Bio-Formats, TrackMate, Analyze Particles), NumPy↔ImagePlus/ImgLib2 exchange, and ImageJ Ops.

PyLabRobot (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Vendor-agnostic lab automation framework.

QuickGO (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Query EBI QuickGO REST API for GO terms and protein annotations.

ReMap (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Query ReMap 2022 TF ChIP-seq peak database via REST API and BED downloads.

Reactome (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Query Reactome pathways via REST: pathway queries, entity lookup, keyword search, gene list enrichment, hierarchy, cross-refs.

RegulomeDB (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Query RegulomeDB v2 GET REST API to score variants for regulatory function and retrieve overlapping evidence (TF binding, histone marks, DNase peaks, footprints, motifs …

Roary (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Compute the bacterial pan-genome from Prokka/Bakta GFF3 annotations with Roary’s CD-HIT + BLAST + MCL clustering pipeline.

SAMtools (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

CLI toolkit for SAM/BAM/CRAM: sort, index, convert, filter, QC alignments.

STAR (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Splice-aware RNA-seq aligner producing sorted BAM and splice junction tables.

STRING (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Query STRING REST API for PPIs (59M proteins, 20B interactions, 5000+ species).

Salmon (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Ultra-fast RNA-seq transcript/gene quantification via quasi-mapping (no BAM).

Scanpy-MCP

MCP server · scmcphub · GA

MCP server wrapping Scanpy so Claude can run end-to-end single-cell RNA-seq analyses (QC, clustering, DE, plotting) from natural language.

Scholar Gateway Connector (Wiley)

MCP server · Wiley · Beta

Wiley remote connector for peer-reviewed scholarly content — 3M+ articles, 300+ Life Sciences journals.

Scientific Brainstorming (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Creative research ideation and exploration.

Scientific Critical Thinking (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Evaluate scientific claims and evidence quality.

Single-Cell Annotation Guide (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Decision framework for manual marker-based, automated (CellTypist), and reference-based (popV) cell type annotation in scRNA-seq.

SnpEff / SnpSift (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Annotate and filter VCF variants with SnpEff and SnpSift.

Synapse.org Connector

MCP server · Sage Bionetworks · GA

Discovery and metadata retrieval across Synapse-hosted biomedical datasets and consortium projects.

TileDB-VCF (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Efficient storage and retrieval of genomic variant data using TileDB.

ToolUniverse

MCP server · Zitnik Lab (Harvard Medical School) · MIT Lincoln Laboratory · GA

Harvard / MIT MCP server bundling 600+ vetted scientific tools — literature, chemistry, omics, clinical trials — for AI-scientist-style hypothesis exploration.

UCSC Genome Browser (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Query UCSC Genome Browser REST API for DNA sequences, tracks, gene models, and conservation across 100+ assemblies.

UniProt MCP Server

MCP server · Augmented Nature · GA

MCP server giving Claude 26 tools over the UniProt REST API for protein search, domains, orthologs, PTMs, pathways, and multi-format export.

ViennaRNA (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Predict RNA secondary structure, MFE folding, base-pair probabilities, RNA-RNA interactions via ViennaRNA Python bindings.

Western Blot Quantification (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Protocols and best practices for western blot quantification and analysis including band detection, normalization, and statistical methods

bio-research (Claude Code Plugin)

Claude Code Plugin · Anthropic · GA

Umbrella plugin bundling 5 analysis skills and ~10 MCP connectors (PubMed, BioRender, ChEMBL, Synapse, Wiley, Open Targets, Benchling, etc.) for preclinical R&D.

cBioPortal (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Cancer genomics (TCGA et al.) via cBioPortal REST API.

dbSNP (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Query NCBI dbSNP for SNP records by rsID, gene, or region via E-utilities and Variation Services REST API.

decoupler-MCP

MCP server · scmcphub · GA

MCP server wrapping decoupler so Claude can infer pathway and transcription-factor activities from expression data in natural language.

deepTools (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

NGS analysis toolkit.

fastp (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

All-in-one FASTQ QC and adapter trimming.

featureCounts (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Counts RNA-seq reads overlapping GTF gene features.

geniml (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Working with genomic interval data (BED files) for machine learning tasks.

gget (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Claude skill wrapping the gget command-line / Python tool for fast unified queries against Ensembl, UniProt, NCBI, PDB, COSMIC, and other genomics databases.

gnomAD (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

GnomAD v4 population variant frequencies via GraphQL API.

gtars (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

High-performance toolkit for genomic interval analysis in Rust with Python bindings.

instrument-data-to-allotrope

Claude Skill · Anthropic · GA

Converts 40+ lab-instrument output formats to Allotrope Simple Model JSON / CSV for LIMS and data-lake ingestion.

libSBML (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Build, read, validate, modify SBML biological network models via the libSBML Python API.

muon (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Multi-modal single-cell analysis with muon/MuData.

napari (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Interactive viewer for microscopy.

nextflow-development

Claude Skill · Anthropic · GA

Runs nf-core rnaseq, sarek, and atacseq pipelines on local FASTQ or GEO/SRA inputs.

pLannotate (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Auto-annotate plasmids with features (promoters, terminators, resistance, origins, tags, fluorescent proteins) via BLAST against curated DBs (Addgene, fpbase, SnapGene).

pacsomatic (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Operator toolkit for nf-core/pacsomatic matched tumor-normal workflows from BAM inputs.

popV (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Consensus cell type annotation: runs 10+ algorithms (KNN-Harmony/BBKNN/Scanorama/scVI, CellTypist, ONCLASS, Random Forest, SCANVI, SVM, XGBoost) on a labeled reference and transfers labels via majority voting.

pyOpenMS (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Complete mass spectrometry analysis platform.

pysam (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Genomic file toolkit.

scVelo (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Claude skill for RNA-velocity analysis with scVelo — estimates cell-state transitions from unspliced/spliced mRNA counts, infers trajectories, latent time, and driver genes.

scientific-problem-selection

Claude Skill · Anthropic · GA

Structured framework for research project ideation, risk assessment, and troubleshooting, based on Fischbach & Walsh (Cell 2024).

scikit-bio (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · K-Dense · GA

Skill for microbiome ecology — reads BIOM/FASTA, computes alpha/beta diversity (UniFrac), PCoA, PERMANOVA, and builds phylogenetic trees.

scikit-image (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Python image processing for microscopy and bioimage analysis.

scvi-tools

Claude Skill · Anthropic · GA

Deep-learning workflows for scVI, scANVI, totalVI, MultiVI, PeakVI, DestVI, and related scvi-tools models for single-cell omics.

sgRNA Design (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Three-tiered sgRNA design guide using validated Addgene sequences, CRISPick pre-computed datasets, or de novo design rules for CRISPR experiments

single-cell-rna-qc

Claude Skill · Anthropic · GA

scverse MAD-based QC for .h5ad and 10x .h5 single-cell RNA-seq inputs.

trackpy (Claude Skill)

Claude Skill · SciAgent · GA

Python library for single-particle tracking (SPT) in video microscopy via the Crocker-Grier algorithm.


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