Cosmic Database
Access and analyze vast astronomical data—star catalogs, nebulae locations, exoplanet details—with davila7's cosmic-database skill.
Install on your platform
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add cosmic-database npx -- -y @trustedskills/cosmic-database
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"cosmic-database": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/cosmic-database"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
This skill provides programmatic access to the COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer) database, a comprehensive resource for exploring somatic mutations in human cancer. It enables AI agents to download and analyze data including millions of mutations across thousands of cancer types, curated gene lists, mutational signatures, clinical annotations, structural variants, copy number alterations, and gene fusions. The skill requires user authentication with COSMIC.
When to use it
- Downloading cancer mutation data for research or analysis.
- Accessing the Cancer Gene Census (a list of over 700 curated cancer genes).
- Retrieving mutational signature profiles.
- Analyzing drug resistance mutations in cancer.
- Working with cancer cell line genomics data.
- Integrating COSMIC mutation data into bioinformatics pipelines.
Key capabilities
- Downloads comprehensive mutation data (point mutations, indels, genomic annotations) in TSV and VCF formats.
- Provides access to the Cancer Gene Census.
- Retrieves sample metadata and tumor information.
- Supports downloading specific files or entire datasets based on data type and genome assembly.
Example prompts
- "Download the latest CosmicMutantExport mutation data."
- "Get me the Cancer Gene Census in CSV format."
- "Retrieve mutational signature profiles for [specific cancer type]."
Tips & gotchas
- Account Registration Required: COSMIC requires registration (academic or commercial license) to download data. Academic users register at https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic/register, while commercial users need a QIAGEN license.
- Python Dependencies: The skill utilizes Python and requires the
requestsandpandaslibraries (pip install requests pandas). - Authentication: You will need to provide your COSMIC email address and password for data downloads.
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