RegulomeDB (Claude Skill)

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

   
Type Claude Skill
Supplier jaechang-hits (community OSS, CC BY 4.0)
Availability GA — part of the BixBench-evaluated SciAgent-Skills collection
Pricing Free / OSS (CC-BY-4.0)
Capabilities Read/Write — Claude runs the skill’s Python locally (Bash), not as an MCP tool

How to install

SciAgent-Skills is not an npm package — skills are plain markdown read directly by the agent (no npx/npm).

  • Claude Code — clone and load as a plugin: 
    git clone https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills

    Then inside Claude Code run /plugin install sciagent-skills (verify it appears under /plugin → Installed). Clone into your project directory so Claude Code picks the skills up via CLAUDE.md.

  • Manual / other agents — point the agent at the skill file directly: 
    cp -r SciAgent-Skills/skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/regulomedb-database ~/.claude/skills/

    The skill declares its own Python dependencies in its SKILL.md; install them when prompted on first use.

What it does

Query RegulomeDB v2 GET REST API to score variants for regulatory function and retrieve overlapping evidence (TF binding, histone marks, DNase peaks, footprints, motifs, eQTLs, chromatin state). Scores range 1a (strongest) to 7 (none). Use for GWAS hit prioritization, regulatory variant annotation, cis-regulatory discovery. Use clinvar-database for pathogenicity; gwas-database for trait associations.

Primary use cases: GWAS hit prioritization, regulatory variant annotation, cis-regulatory discovery.

Notes

Distributed as a SKILL.md (plus code examples) in the SciAgent-Skills collection — Claude executes it locally via Bash/Python rather than as an MCP server. Upstream license: CC-BY-4.0. The skill directory upstream is skills/genomics-bioinformatics/databases/regulomedb-database.

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