# Skills for Science and research

Skills for Science and research: what each one does, an install command and example prompts.

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- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/topic/science?page=7
- Instructions for agents: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/agents.md

- [literature-search-biorxiv](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/literature-search-biorxiv.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2500 installs — Search bioRxiv and medRxiv preprints by DOI or date range.
- [nanogpt](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/nanogpt.md) — skill · Orchestra Research · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 956 installs — This skill guides work with a small PyTorch GPT implementation.
- [transformer-lens-interpretability](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/transformer-lens-interpretability.md) — skill · Orchestra Research · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 954 installs — This skill guides TransformerLens research on transformer internals, from activation caching and attention analysis to activation patching experiments.
- [pyvene-interventions](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/pyvene-interventions.md) — skill · Orchestra Research · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 952 installs — This skill guides causal intervention experiments on PyTorch models using pyvene.
- [sparse-autoencoder-training](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/sparse-autoencoder-training.md) — skill · Orchestra Research · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 950 installs — Provides patterns to train and analyze Sparse Autoencoders using SAELens.
- [citation-verification](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/citation-verification.md) — skill · Galaxy-Dawn · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 1400 installs — A skill that sets rules for verifying citations in academic writing, so you don't ship invented or mismatched references.
- [torchforge-rl-training](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/torchforge-rl-training.md) — skill · Orchestra Research · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 946 installs — This skill guides PyTorch-native agentic RL with torchforge.
- [nnsight-remote-interpretability](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/nnsight-remote-interpretability.md) — skill · Orchestra Research · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 945 installs — Guides neural network interpretability and intervention using nnsight locally or remotely via NDIF.
- [presenting-conference-talks](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/presenting-conference-talks.md) — skill · Orchestra Research · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 913 installs — Generates Beamer LaTeX and PPTX presentation slides from a compiled research paper with speaker notes.
- [academic-pptx](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/academic-pptx.md) — skill · Gabberflast · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 1100 installs — Guides content structure and visual standards for academic slide decks, from thesis defenses to conference talks.
- [ml-training-recipes](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/ml-training-recipes.md) — skill · dailycafi · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 912 installs — PyTorch training recipes for neural networks, covering training loops, Muon and AdamW optimizer setups, mixed precision, and scaling laws.
- [systems-paper-writing](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/systems-paper-writing.md) — skill · Orchestra Research · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 908 installs — Paragraph-level structural blueprint for writing 10–12 page systems papers targeting OSDI, SOSP, ASPLOS, NSDI, and EuroSys.
- [clinical-trials-database](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/clinical-trials-database.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2400 installs — Queries ClinicalTrials.gov via REST API v2 to search studies by condition, drug, status, or phase.
- [deeppapernote](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/deeppapernote.md) — skill · 917Dhj · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 1500 installs — DeepPaperNote reads scientific papers and turns them into structured Markdown research notes for Obsidian vaults with evidence checks and figure plans.
- [fine-tuning-serving-openpi](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/fine-tuning-serving-openpi.md) — skill · Orchestra Research · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 861 installs — Workflows for fine-tuning and serving Physical Intelligence OpenPI models (pi0, pi0-fast, pi0.5).
- [fine-tuning-openvla-oft](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/fine-tuning-openvla-oft.md) — skill · Orchestra Research · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 861 installs — Guides fine-tuning and evaluation of OpenVLA-OFT robot action policies.
- [paper-polish](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/paper-polish.md) — skill · HKUSTDial · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 532 installs — Polishes an existing academic draft: grammar, flow, tone, and Chinese-to-English rewriting.
- [blog-notebooklm](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/blog-notebooklm.md) — skill · AgriciDaniel · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2500 installs — Queries your Gemini Notebook documents via a browser session and returns source-grounded answers.
- [human-protein-atlas-database](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/human-protein-atlas-database.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2200 installs — Retrieves semi-quantitative protein expression levels and subcellular localisation data from the Human Protein Atlas.
- [opentargets-database](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/opentargets-database.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2200 installs — This skill gives your agent GraphQL access to the Open Targets Platform: target-disease associations, drug data and tractability scores.
- [ensembl-database](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/ensembl-database.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2200 installs — Resolves gene symbols into ENSG, ENST and ENSP IDs, pulls sequences and predicts variant effects with VEP.
- [clinvar-database](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/clinvar-database.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2200 installs — Queries ClinVar for clinical significance, review status, and pathogenicity of genomic variants.
- [chembl-database](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/chembl-database.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2200 installs — A skill that lets your agent pull molecules, targets, bioactivity, approved drugs and structure matches from ChEMBL.
- [alphagenome-single-variant-analysis](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/alphagenome-single-variant-analysis.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2200 installs — A skill that runs one genetic variant in chr:pos:ref>alt form through the AlphaGenome API and reports expression, chromatin and histone effects.
- [uniprot-database](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/uniprot-database.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2200 installs — Retrieves protein metadata, function annotations, and sequences from UniProtKB, UniParc, and UniRef.
- [openfda-database](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/openfda-database.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2200 installs — Queries, counts and downloads records from the openFDA API.
- [pymol](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/pymol.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2200 installs — A PyMOL skill that renders protein and molecular structures, runs alignments, and measures distances or contacts.
- [ncbi-sequence-fetch](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/ncbi-sequence-fetch.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2200 installs — Fetches protein and nucleotide sequences from NCBI databases via E-utilities.
- [pubchem-database](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/pubchem-database.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2200 installs — A skill that wires your agent into PubChem: resolves compounds by name, CID or SMILES and pulls properties, hazard data and bioactivity.
- [alphafold-database-fetch-and-analyze](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/alphafold-database-fetch-and-analyze.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2200 installs — Pulls AlphaFold predicted structures by UniProt ID and works out what they mean: pLDDT confidence, disordered regions, rigid domain boundaries.
- [pdb-database](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/pdb-database.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2200 installs — Searches and downloads experimental 3D structures of biomolecules from RCSB PDB using sequence similarity, structure comparisons, or chemical attributes.
- [paper-writer](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/paper-writer.md) — skill · HKUSTDial · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 500 installs — A skill that writes paper prose from the author's own notes, results and drafts, for a paragraph or a whole manuscript.
- [deep-research](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/hkustdial-deep-research.md) — skill · HKUSTDial · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 496 installs — Runs a topic investigation in the shape of a survey paper: pins the questions, searches from several angles, checks every reference and answers each question in the final report.
- [unibind-database](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/unibind-database.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2100 installs — This skill queries UniBind for experimentally validated transcription-factor binding sites and downloads BED or FASTA coordinates for local analysis.
- [ucsc-conservation-and-tfbs](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/ucsc-conservation-and-tfbs.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2100 installs — Pulls evolutionary conservation scores (phyloP, phastCons) and transcription factor binding sites out of the UCSC Genome Browser.
- [encode-ccres-database](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/encode-ccres-database.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2100 installs — Queries the ENCODE Registry of cis-regulatory elements using the SCREEN GraphQL API and REST API.
- [gnomad-database](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/gnomad-database.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2100 installs — This skill queries gnomAD for variant frequencies, gene constraint metrics, and regional variant searches.
- [quickgo-database](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/quickgo-database.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2100 installs — Queries the QuickGO and ECO REST API to link genes to biological processes, molecular functions and cellular components.
- [jaspar-database](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/jaspar-database.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2100 installs — Queries the JASPAR database for transcription factor binding profiles.
- [gtex-database](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/gtex-database.md) — skill · google-deepmind · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor +3 · 2100 installs — Retrieves RNA expression and eQTL data from GTEx across 54 non-diseased human tissue sites.

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