Biopython

Biopython is a Data skill for Claude Code, published by K-Dense-AI in scientific-agent-skills.

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Install Biopython

Copy Biopython into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/biopython ~/.claude/skills/biopython

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/biopython/SKILL.md in K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/biopython
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Data — 668 skills

What Biopython does

Biopython provides tools for sequence manipulation, file parsing (FASTA/GenBank/PDB), phylogenetics, and programmatic NCBI/PubMed access via Bio.Entrez. Use it for batch processing, custom bioinformatics pipelines, and BLAST automation.

Biopython is cataloged under Data on DirSkills. Biopython comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-scientist, bioinformatics, chemoinformatics and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Biopython: Computational Molecular Biology in Python

Overview

Biopython is a comprehensive set of freely available Python tools for biological computation. It provides functionality for sequence manipulation, file I/O, database access, structural bioinformatics, phylogenetics, and many other bioinformatics tasks. The current version is Biopython 1.87 (released 30 March 2026). It supports Python 3.10-3.14 and PyPy3.10, and requires NumPy. Biopython 1.87 also addresses CVE-2025-68463 in Bio.Entrez.Parser when parsing untrusted files, so prefer 1.87+ for workflows that parse externally supplied Entrez XML.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Biopython

What else does K-Dense-AI publish alongside Biopython?
Biopython is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Adaptyv Bio Foundry API, Aeon and Analytical Method Validation. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Biopython does, and is maintained by K-Dense-AI in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills page.
How does Biopython compare to other Data skills?
Biopython ranks #40 by stars among the 668 Data skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark Methodology, Jupyter Notebook and Solana. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Biopython against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.