Protein Sequence Similarity Search

This is Google DeepMind's implementation for running protein sequence similarity searches, which means you can feed it a protein sequence and find similar ones in databases. It uses NCBI BLAST through EBI's API and integrates with ColabFold, both industry standard tools for this kind of work. You'll need to agree to their terms before using it, and while providing your email is optional, EBI recommends it for job tracking. The setup requires uv and handles credentials properly through a dedicated protocol. If you're doing any bioinformatics work where you need to identify related proteins or understand evolutionary relationships, this saves you from manually interfacing with these APIs yourself. Nearly 1,000 installs suggests it's seeing real use in computational biology workflows.

Install to Claude Code

npx -y skills add google-deepmind/science-skills --skill protein-sequence-similarity-search --agent claude-code