Agent skill

Drugbank Database Access

by jaechang-hits in jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills

Parse local DrugBank XML for drug info, interactions, targets, and properties.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Drugbank Database Access

skills CLI
$ npx skills add jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills --skill drugbank-database-access -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills drugbank-database-access --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/structural-biology-drug-discovery/drugbank-database-access .claude/skills/drugbank-database-access && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
drugbank-database-access
GitHub stars
374
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~5.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
925 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
169
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Parse local DrugBank XML for drug info, interactions, targets, and properties.

  • Works in 6 steps: Data Access and Setup → Drug Information Queries → Drug-Drug Interactions → …
  • Tasks that involve Drug discovery and cheminformatics
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, When to Use, Prerequisites and Quick Start, plus 10 more sections
  • Calls pip; reaches drugbank.ca

What it does

Drugbank Database Access is an agent skill from jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills. Parse local DrugBank XML for drug info, interactions, targets, and properties. Search by ID/name/CAS, extract DDIs with severity, map targets/enzymes/transporters, compute SMILES similarity. Primary via local XML; REST API rate-limited (3k/month dev). For live bioactivity use chembl-database-bioactivity; for compound properties use pubchem-compound-search.

Its SKILL.md is about 5.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files, including reference files (for example `references/chemical_analysis.md` and `references/interactions_targets.md`).

It sits in Research & Science, covering Drug discovery and cheminformatics, REST APIs and Protein structure and design. The repository describes itself as: 197 bioinformatics & life science skills for Claude Code and AI agents — BixBench 92.0% accuracy. RNA-seq, single-cell, drug discovery, proteomics, and more. Powers OmicsHorizon.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Drug discovery and cheminformatics
  • Tasks that involve REST APIs
  • Tasks that involve Protein structure and design

Example prompts

  • “/drugbank-database-access”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Data Access and Setup
  2. Drug Information Queries
  3. Drug-Drug Interactions
  4. Drug Targets and Pathways
  5. Chemical Properties and Similarity
  6. Cross-Database Integration

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 82c862c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • pip

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • drugbank.ca

    Also links to:

    • go.drugbank.com
    • docs.drugbank.com
    • pypi.org
    • doi.org

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Drugbank Database Access loads about 5.8k tokens when it runs, and up to ~13k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 96 tokens; SKILL.md has 925 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~96
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~5.8k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~13k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 925 words (~5,804 tokens).

“Query the DrugBank comprehensive drug database (14,000+ drug entries, 5,000+ protein targets, 17,000+ drug interactions) by parsing the locally downloaded XML file with Python's ElementTree. Covers drug lookups, interaction checking, target/pathway extraction, chemical property analysis, and cross-database identifier mapping.”

— opening of SKILL.md by jaechang-hits, Custom licence
name
drugbank-database-access
license
Unknown

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in skills/structural-biology-drug-discovery/drugbank-database-access of jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/chemical_analysis.md
  • references/interactions_targets.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 82c862c

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Drugbank Database Access

What does Drugbank Database Access do?

Parse local DrugBank XML for drug info, interactions, targets, and properties. Drugbank Database Access is an agent skill from jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills. Parse local DrugBank XML for drug info, interactions, targets, and properties.

When should I use Drugbank Database Access?

Drugbank Database Access fits situations like: tasks that involve Drug discovery and cheminformatics; tasks that involve REST APIs; tasks that involve Protein structure and design.

How do I install Drugbank Database Access in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills --skill drugbank-database-access -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/structural-biology-drug-discovery/drugbank-database-access in jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills) into .claude/skills/drugbank-database-access in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Drugbank Database Access in Codex?

Run `npx skills add jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills --skill drugbank-database-access -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/structural-biology-drug-discovery/drugbank-database-access in jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills) into .agents/skills/drugbank-database-access in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Drugbank Database Access in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills --skill drugbank-database-access -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/drugbank-database-access, .gemini/skills/drugbank-database-access, .github/skills/drugbank-database-access and .opencode/skills/drugbank-database-access in your project.

What does Drugbank Database Access need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Drugbank Database Access needs the command-line tools its instructions call (pip). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Drugbank Database Access access the network?

SKILL.md names 5 domains. In commands or code: drugbank.ca; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. As links in the text: go.drugbank.com, docs.drugbank.com, pypi.org and doi.org. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Drugbank Database Access safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Drugbank Database Access use?

Drugbank Database Access has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Drugbank Database Access use?

About 5.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 23k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 6.8k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Drugbank Database Access?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Drugbank Database Access: DiffDock Molecular Docking (K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills, 48k stars), Biopipelines (locbp-uzh/biopipelines, 109 stars), Pubchem Database (davila7/claude-code-templates, 33k stars) and Pdb Database (davila7/claude-code-templates, 33k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Drugbank Database Access?

jaechang-hits (a GitHub user) maintains it in jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills, which has 374 GitHub stars. The repository holds 169 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 29, 2026.

Source: jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.