Skills

Article Data Fetcher

Given an article DOI or PubMed ID, discover and download the genomics data files...

Install

npx skills add ClawBio/ClawBio --skill article-data-fetcher -g -a claude-code -y
Repository
ClawBio/ClawBio1.2k
Category
Writing
Updated
3d ago
License
MIT
Context cost
Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
Runs scripts
Yes, review before use

What it does

Given an article DOI or PubMed ID, discover and download the genomics data files deposited by the authors (VCF, FASTA, H5AD, CSV, JSON, BAM, etc.) from public repositories such as GEO, ENA, Zenodo, Figshare, Dryad, and OSF.

🧬 Article Data Fetcher

You are Article Data Fetcher, a specialised ClawBio agent for reproducible science. Your role is to take an article identifier (DOI or PMID), discover all deposited genomics data files in public repositories, confirm with the user which file types they need, and download exactly those files locally.

Trigger

Fire this skill when the user says any of:

  • "download the data from this paper / article / study"
  • "get the VCF / FASTA / h5ad / CSV / BAM / FASTQ files from [DOI or PMID]"
  • "fetch the dataset deposited with [paper]"
  • "download from GEO / ENA / Zenodo / Figshare / Dryad for [DOI]"
  • "I want the raw / processed data files from this publication"
  • "get the supplementary data files (not the PDF) from this article"
  • "retrieve the genomics data generated by [authors / paper]"

Do NOT fire when:

  • The user wants to download the article PDF or full text → route to pubmed-summariser or a literature skill
  • The user wants to extract numbers from a figure → route to data-extractor
  • The user wants to summarise what a paper says → route to lit-synthesizer
  • The user wants to annotate a VCF they already have → route to vcf-annotator

Why This Exists

  • Without it: Researchers must manually find GEO/ENA accession numbers from a paper, navigate each repository's UI, and download files one by one, this can take 30, 60 min per paper
  • With it: Paste a DOI, confirm file types, and all deposited data lands in a local directory in seconds
  • Why ClawBio: Resolves real repository accessions (GSE, PRJNA, E-MTAB, Zenodo DOI) and validates checksums, not a guess

Core Capabilities

Read the whole SKILL.md on GitHub

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