bioservices

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides a unified Python interface to over 40 bioinformatics web services and databases, simplifying complex data retrieval and analysis workflows.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Cross-Database Queries: Seamlessly query multiple databases like UniProt, KEGG, ChEMBL, and Reactome in a single workflow.
• Identifier Mapping: Convert identifiers between different biological databases (e.g., UniProt to KEGG, KEGG to ChEMBL).
• Sequence Analysis: Perform BLAST searches and sequence alignments.
• Pathway Discovery: Analyze metabolic pathways and gene functions.
• Use Case: Automatically map gene IDs from an Ensembl output to their corresponding KEGG pathway IDs, then retrieve protein-protein interaction data for those genes from PSICQUIC.

Quick Start

Use the bioservices skill to find all human pathways containing the gene ZAP70.