bioRxiv Database

by LeonChaoX

bioRxiv Database is a Data skill for Claude Code, published by LeonChaoX in qinyan-academic-skills.

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Install bioRxiv Database

Copy bioRxiv Database 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/LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills/tree/main/skills/01-%E8%AE%BA%E6%96%87%E6%A3%80%E7%B4%A2%E4%B8%8E%E6%96%87%E7%8C%AE%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86/biorxiv-database' ~/.claude/skills/biorxiv-database

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/LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/01-论文检索与文献管理/biorxiv-database/SKILL.md in LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/biorxiv-database
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Data — 668 skills

What bioRxiv Database does

bioRxiv Database searches bioRxiv preprints by keywords, authors, dates, categories, or DOI and returns structured metadata. Use it for literature reviews, citation lookup, and downloading preprint PDFs.

bioRxiv Database is cataloged under Data on DirSkills. bioRxiv Database comes from a repository tagged academic, ai-assistant, arxiv, claude-code and google-scholar.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

bioRxiv Database

Overview

This skill provides efficient Python-based tools for searching and retrieving preprints from the bioRxiv database. It enables comprehensive searches by keywords, authors, date ranges, and categories, returning structured JSON metadata that includes titles, abstracts, DOIs, and citation information. The skill also supports PDF downloads for full-text analysis.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

Searching for recent preprints in specific research areas
Tracking publications by particular authors
Conducting systematic literature reviews
Analyzing research trends over time periods
Retrieving metadata for citation management
Downloading preprint PDFs for analysis
Filtering papers by bioRxiv subject categories

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

Frequently asked about bioRxiv Database

What else does LeonChaoX publish alongside bioRxiv Database?
bioRxiv Database is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include BGPT Paper Search, Citation Management and Generate Image. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way bioRxiv Database does, and is maintained by LeonChaoX in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills page.
How does bioRxiv Database compare to other Data skills?
bioRxiv Database ranks #506 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 bioRxiv Database against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.