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alterlab-bioservices
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Query 40+ bioinformatics web services through one consistent Python API with bioservices (UniProt, KEGG, ChEMBL, Reactome, Ensembl, NCBI and more). Use when a workflow must hit multiple databases together, map identifiers across services, or run cross-database analyses — for quick single-database lookups use gget, for sequence and file manipulation use biopython. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 76 stars are split between them (about 8 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 55/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit e4836c08a20d, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.
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Alternatives
Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.
| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onealterlab-bioservices AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills · Skill | 55 | ★ 76 | ≈108 always | 21d ago |
| bioservices synthetic-sciences/openscience · Skill Same job: databases | 75 | ★ 4.1k | ≈83 always | 17d ago |