Claude Scientific Skills give Claude super powers, not just on coding, but about any science. We try them out to see what's on offer.

But first of all what are Claude Skills. If you're familiar with CustomGPTs then Skills is something similar. They both enable the LLM to access specialized agents. In the Skills case, they are shaped as plugins which comprise of a mix of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load dynamically when trying to perform a task. For instance, with Skills you can:

• Create professional documents (Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, Word)
• Perform complex data analysis and visualization
• Apply company-specific workflows and branding
• Automate business processes with domain expertise

Claude automatically identifies which skills are needed and coordinates their use.

One great property of Skills is that they can be shared. Therefore the "Claude Scientific Skills" which is a collection of 125+ ready-to-use scientific skills for Claude, created by the K-Dense team, can be plugged by anyone into their Claude workspaces.

The domains these addons are about (which also draw directly from OpenAlex, PubMed, ChEMBL, UniProt, COSMIC, and more) are (a sample):

• Bioinformatics & Genomics - Sequence analysis, single-cell RNA-seq, gene regulatory networks, variant annotation, phylogenetic analysis
• Healthcare AI & Clinical ML - EHR analysis, physiological signal processing, medical imaging, clinical prediction models
• Materials Science & Chemistry - Crystal structure analysis, phase diagrams, metabolic modeling, computational chemistry
• Physics & Astronomy - Astronomical data analysis, coordinate transformations, cosmological calculations, symbolic mathematics, physics computations
• Protein Engineering & Design - Protein language models, structure prediction, sequence design, function annotation

Each skill includes:

• Comprehensive documentation (SKILL.md)
• Practical code examples
• Use cases and best practices
• Integration guides
• Reference materials

Let's put it into practice with one of the provided example use cases.

Use case: Drug Repurposing for Rare Diseases
Objective: Identify FDA-approved drugs that could be repurposed for treating a rare metabolic disorder.

Skills Used:

1. drugbank-database - Query approved drugs
2. opentargets-database - Target-disease associations
3. string-database - Protein interactions
4. kegg-database - Pathway analysis
5. reactome-database - Pathway enrichment
6. clinicaltrials-database - Check ongoing trials
7. fda-database - Drug approvals and safety
8. networkx - Network analysis
9. literature-review - Systematic review

Use case:Scientific Illustration & Visual Communication

Objective: Generate and refine scientific illustrations, diagrams, and graphical abstracts for publications and presentations.

Skills Used:

1. generate-image - AI image generation and editing
2. matplotlib - Data visualization
3. scientific-visualization - Best practices
4. scientific-writing - Figure caption creation
5. reportlab - PDF report generation

Installing them is pretty easy as you just need Claude Code and pulling the package from the Claude Marketplace as following:

/plugin marketplace add K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills

Then from inside menu choose "Browse and install plugins" menus where claude-scientific-skills package will be available.

If on the othe hand you're feeling brave enough, you can clone the repo and install it from source. And with that, Claude has just became your private research assistant.

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