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Query and analyze scholarly literature using the OpenAlex database. This skill should be used when searching for academic papers, analyzing research trends, finding works by authors or institutions, tracking citations, discovering open access publications, or conducting bibliometric analysis across 240M+ scholarly works. Use for literature searches, research output analysis, citation analysis, and academic database queries.

Query Open Targets Platform for target-disease associations, drug target discovery, tractability/safety data, genetics/omics evidence, known drugs, for therapeutic target identification.

Computational pathology toolkit for analyzing whole-slide images (WSI) and multiparametric imaging data. Use this skill when working with histopathology slides, H&E stained images, multiplex immunofluorescence (CODEX, Vectra), spatial proteomics, nucleus detection/segmentation, tissue graph construction, or training ML models on pathology data. Supports 160+ slide formats including Aperio SVS, NDPI, DICOM, OME-TIFF for digital pathology workflows.

Access RCSB PDB for 3D protein/nucleic acid structures. Search by text/sequence/structure, download coordinates (PDB/mmCIF), retrieve metadata, for structural biology and drug discovery.

Perform AI-powered web searches with real-time information using Perplexity models via LiteLLM and OpenRouter. This skill should be used when conducting web searches for current information, finding recent scientific literature, getting grounded answers with source citations, or accessing information beyond the model's knowledge cutoff. Provides access to multiple Perplexity models including Sonar Pro, Sonar Pro Search (advanced agentic search), and Sonar Reasoning Pro through a single OpenRouter API key.

Design comprehensive test cases using PICT (Pairwise Independent Combinatorial Testing) for any piece of requirements or code. Analyzes inputs, generates PICT models with parameters, values, and constraints for valid scenarios using pairwise testing. Outputs the PICT model, markdown table of test cases, and expected results.

Interactive scientific and statistical data visualization library for Python. Use when creating charts, plots, or visualizations including scatter plots, line charts, bar charts, heatmaps, 3D plots, geographic maps, statistical distributions, financial charts, and dashboards. Supports both quick visualizations (Plotly Express) and fine-grained customization (graph objects). Outputs interactive HTML or static images (PNG, PDF, SVG).

Fast DataFrame library (Apache Arrow). Select, filter, group_by, joins, lazy evaluation, CSV/Parquet I/O, expression API, for high-performance data analysis workflows.

Strategic product leadership toolkit for Head of Product including OKR cascade generation, market analysis, vision setting, and team scaling. Use for strategic planning, goal alignment, competitive analysis, and organizational design.

Comprehensive project planning and documentation generator for software projects. Creates structured requirements documents, system design documents, and task breakdown plans with implementation tracking. Use when starting a new project, defining specifications, creating technical designs, or breaking down complex systems into implementable tasks. Supports user story format, acceptance criteria, component design, API specifications, and hierarchical task decomposition with requirement traceability.

Use this skill when you writing commands, hooks, skills for Agent, or prompts for sub agents or any other LLM interaction, including optimizing prompts, improving LLM outputs, or designing production prompt templates.

Query PubChem via PUG-REST API/PubChemPy (110M+ compounds). Search by name/CID/SMILES, retrieve properties, similarity/substructure searches, bioactivity, for cheminformatics.

Direct REST API access to PubMed. Advanced Boolean/MeSH queries, E-utilities API, batch processing, citation management. For Python workflows, prefer biopython (Bio.Entrez). Use this for direct HTTP/REST work or custom API implementations.

Materials science toolkit. Crystal structures (CIF, POSCAR), phase diagrams, band structure, DOS, Materials Project integration, format conversion, for computational materials science.

Bayesian modeling with PyMC. Build hierarchical models, MCMC (NUTS), variational inference, LOO/WAIC comparison, posterior checks, for probabilistic programming and inference.

Multi-objective optimization framework. NSGA-II, NSGA-III, MOEA/D, Pareto fronts, constraint handling, benchmarks (ZDT, DTLZ), for engineering design and optimization problems.

Genomic file toolkit. Read/write SAM/BAM/CRAM alignments, VCF/BCF variants, FASTA/FASTQ sequences, extract regions, calculate coverage, for NGS data processing pipelines.

Therapeutics Data Commons. AI-ready drug discovery datasets (ADME, toxicity, DTI), benchmarks, scaffold splits, molecular oracles, for therapeutic ML and pharmacological prediction.

Comprehensive quantum computing toolkit for building, optimizing, and executing quantum circuits. Use when working with quantum algorithms, simulations, or quantum hardware including (1) Building quantum circuits with gates and measurements, (2) Running quantum algorithms (VQE, QAOA, Grover), (3) Transpiling/optimizing circuits for hardware, (4) Executing on IBM Quantum or other providers, (5) Quantum chemistry and materials science, (6) Quantum machine learning, (7) Visualizing circuits and results, or (8) Any quantum computing development task.

Cheminformatics toolkit for fine-grained molecular control. SMILES/SDF parsing, descriptors (MW, LogP, TPSA), fingerprints, substructure search, 2D/3D generation, similarity, reactions. For standard workflows with simpler interface, use datamol (wrapper around RDKit). Use rdkit for advanced control, custom sanitization, specialized algorithms.

Query Reactome REST API for pathway analysis, enrichment, gene-pathway mapping, disease pathways, molecular interactions, expression analysis, for systems biology studies.

PDF generation toolkit. Create invoices, reports, certificates, forms, charts, tables, barcodes, QR codes, Canvas/Platypus APIs, for professional document automation.

Single-cell RNA-seq analysis. Load .h5ad/10X data, QC, normalization, PCA/UMAP/t-SNE, Leiden clustering, marker genes, cell type annotation, trajectory, for scRNA-seq analysis.

Statistical visualization. Scatter, box, violin, heatmaps, pair plots, regression, correlation matrices, KDE, faceted plots, for exploratory analysis and publication figures.