PDB Access

PDB Access is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by BioTender-max in awesome-bio-agent-skills.

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Install PDB Access

Copy PDB Access 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/BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/adaptyv/pdb ~/.claude/skills/pdb

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/BioTender-max/awesome-bio-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/adaptyv/pdb/SKILL.md in BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/pdb
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3475 skills

What PDB Access does

PDB Access fetches protein structures and metadata from RCSB PDB, and can search similar structures or extract chains and regions. Use it to prepare targets for binder design or inspect interfaces.

PDB Access is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. PDB Access comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agent, ai-agents, awesome and awesome-list.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

# Download PDB file
curl -o 1alu.pdb "https://files.rcsb.org/download/1ALU.pdb"

# Download mmCIF
curl -o 1alu.cif "https://files.rcsb.org/download/1ALU.cif"

Using Python

from Bio.PDB import PDBList

pdbl = PDBList()
pdbl.retrieve_pdb_file("1ABC", pdir="structures/", file_format="pdb")

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

Frequently asked about PDB Access

What else does BioTender-max publish alongside PDB Access?
PDB Access is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ATAC Seq, AlphaFold and BindCraft Binder Design. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way PDB Access does, and is maintained by BioTender-max in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills page.
How does PDB Access compare to other AI Engineering skills?
PDB Access ranks #3235 by stars among the 3475 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 PDB Access against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.