UniProt Database Access
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Queries the UniProt REST API directly to search proteins, fetch FASTA sequences, map IDs between databases and read Swiss-Prot and TrEMBL entries.
Search the PRIDE Archive v3 REST API for proteomics datasets: discover projects by keyword + faceted filters (organism, instrument, disease, software), fetch project metadata, list and download…
$ npx skills add jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills --skill pride-database -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills pride-database --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/proteomics-protein-engineering/pride-database .claude/skills/pride-database && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "pride-database" agent skill from https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills/tree/main/skills/proteomics-protein-engineering/pride-database into .claude/skills/pride-database/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pride-database", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills/tree/main/skills/proteomics-protein-engineering/pride-databaseType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills --skill pride-database -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills pride-database --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/proteomics-protein-engineering/pride-database .agents/skills/pride-database && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "pride-database" agent skill from https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills/tree/main/skills/proteomics-protein-engineering/pride-database into .agents/skills/pride-database/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pride-database", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills --skill pride-database -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills pride-database --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/proteomics-protein-engineering/pride-database .cursor/skills/pride-database && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "pride-database" agent skill from https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills/tree/main/skills/proteomics-protein-engineering/pride-database into .cursor/skills/pride-database/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pride-database", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills.git --path skills/proteomics-protein-engineering/pride-database--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills --skill pride-database -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills pride-database --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/proteomics-protein-engineering/pride-database .gemini/skills/pride-database && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "pride-database" agent skill from https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills/tree/main/skills/proteomics-protein-engineering/pride-database into .gemini/skills/pride-database/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pride-database", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills pride-databaseInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills --skill pride-database -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/proteomics-protein-engineering/pride-database .github/skills/pride-database && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "pride-database" agent skill from https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills/tree/main/skills/proteomics-protein-engineering/pride-database into .github/skills/pride-database/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pride-database", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills --skill pride-database -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills pride-database --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/proteomics-protein-engineering/pride-database .opencode/skills/pride-database && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "pride-database" agent skill from https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills/tree/main/skills/proteomics-protein-engineering/pride-database into .opencode/skills/pride-database/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "pride-database", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
pride-databaseSearch the PRIDE Archive v3 REST API for proteomics datasets: discover projects by keyword + faceted filters (organism, instrument, disease, software), fetch project metadata, list and download…
Pride Database is an agent skill from jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills. Search the PRIDE Archive v3 REST API for proteomics datasets: discover projects by keyword + faceted filters (organism, instrument, disease, software), fetch project metadata, list and download RAW/PEAK/RESULT/FASTA files (with FTP/Aspera URLs), look up which projects mention a UniProt accession, and find similar projects. PRIDE v3 no longer exposes peptide/PSM-level identification endpoints — for spectrum-level data download the project's RESULT files. Use uniprot-protein-database for protein sequences…
Its SKILL.md is about 8.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Research & Science, covering Bioinformatics and REST APIs. It works with UniProt. 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. The licence is Apache-2.0.
7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 82c862c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
pipFrom the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:
ebi.ac.ukAlso links to:
doi.orgproteomexchange.orggithub.comFrom URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Pride Database loads about 8.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 142 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,813 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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.
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.
The full file from jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills at commit 82c862c, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© jaechang-hits). 1,813 words, ~8,156 tokens.
.claude/skills/pride-database/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).The PRIDE Archive (ProteomicsIDEntifications database) at EMBL-EBI is the world's largest public mass-spectrometry proteomics repository — 39,000+ projects and 3.4M+ deposited files as of 2026. Programmatic access is via a JSON REST API at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ws/archive/v3/. No authentication is required. The OpenAPI/Swagger spec is at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ws/archive/v3/v3/api-docs. PRIDE v3 returns plain JSON arrays for list endpoints (no HAL+JSON _embedded envelope) and intentionally does not expose per-peptide or per-PSM identification endpoints — for spectrum-level identifications, download the project's RESULT files (mzIdentML, MaxQuant txt, etc.) and parse them locally.
uniprot-protein-databaseinterpro-database — PRIDE only reports project-level occurrence, not domain-level features/peptides, /psms, or /proteins?proteinAccession= endpoints — if you need peptide- or PSM-level data, download the RESULT files from /projects/{accession}/files and parse them with pyteomics or a search-engine-specific readerrequests, pandas, matplotlibPXD###### format) or a search keyword, optionally a UniProt accession for protein-occurrence lookuptime.sleep(0.3) in loopspip install requests pandas matplotlibimport requests
PRIDE = "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ws/archive/v3"
# 1) Free-text search for cancer proteomics projects
projects = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/search/projects",
params={"keyword": "prostate cancer", "pageSize": 5},
timeout=30).json()
print(f"Top {len(projects)} projects:")
for p in projects[:3]:
instr = ", ".join(p.get("instruments", []))[:50]
print(f" {p['accession']} {(p['title'] or '')[:70]} [{instr}]")
# 2) Drill into one project
acc = projects[0]["accession"]
proj = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/projects/{acc}", timeout=30).json()
print(f"\n{proj['accession']}: {proj['title'][:70]}")
print(f" Submitted: {proj.get('submissionDate')} DOI: {proj.get('doi')}")
print(f" Organisms: {[o['name'] for o in proj.get('organisms', [])]}")
print(f" Instruments: {[i['name'] for i in proj.get('instruments', [])]}")
# 3) List files and total size
files = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/projects/{acc}/files/all", timeout=60).json()
total_mb = sum(f.get("fileSizeBytes", 0) for f in files) / 1e6
print(f"\n {len(files)} files, {total_mb:.0f} MB total")/search/projectsFree-text search with optional facet-based filtering, pagination, and sorting. Returns a plain JSON array of project records — there is no HAL+JSON _embedded/page wrapper.
import requests, pandas as pd
PRIDE = "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ws/archive/v3"
def search_projects(keyword=None, organism=None, instrument=None,
disease=None, software=None,
page_size=25, page=0, sort_field="submission_date",
sort_direction="DESC"):
"""Search PRIDE v3 for projects.
Filter syntax (for the `filter` arg) is `field==value, field==value` using `_facet` field names
that are discoverable via /facet/projects."""
filters = []
if organism: filters.append(f"organisms_facet=={organism}")
if instrument: filters.append(f"instruments_facet=={instrument}")
if disease: filters.append(f"diseases_facet=={disease}")
if software: filters.append(f"softwares_facet=={software}")
params = {"pageSize": page_size, "page": page,
"sortFields": sort_field, "sortDirection": sort_direction}
if keyword: params["keyword"] = keyword
if filters: params["filter"] = ",".join(filters)
r = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/search/projects", params=params, timeout=30)
r.raise_for_status()
return r.json() # plain list[dict]
projects = search_projects(keyword="cancer", organism="Homo sapiens (human)",
instrument="Q Exactive", page_size=5)
df = pd.DataFrame([{
"accession": p["accession"],
"title": (p.get("title") or "")[:70],
"submission_date": p.get("submissionDate"),
"diseases": ", ".join(p.get("diseases", []))[:60],
"instruments": ", ".join(p.get("instruments", []))[:50],
} for p in projects])
print(df.to_string(index=False))# Paginate through all matches for a keyword. The API doesn't return total counts inline;
# walk pages until the next one is empty.
def search_all_projects(keyword, page_size=100, max_pages=20):
all_records, page = [], 0
while page < max_pages:
batch = search_projects(keyword=keyword, page_size=page_size, page=page)
if not batch:
break
all_records.extend(batch)
if len(batch) < page_size:
break # last page
page += 1
return all_records
results = search_all_projects("phosphoproteomics", page_size=100, max_pages=3)
print(f"Phosphoproteomics projects collected (max 300): {len(results)}")/facet/projectsBefore constructing a filtered search, query the facet endpoint to see which instrument / organism / disease / software values actually exist for a given keyword, along with their counts. The response is a dict of facet groups, each mapping {value: count}.
import requests, pandas as pd
PRIDE = "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ws/archive/v3"
def get_facets(keyword=None, facet_page_size=20):
"""Return facet counts for projects matching `keyword`. Keys are facet groups
(instruments, organisms, diseases, softwares, experimentTypes, ...); values are
dicts of {value: count}."""
params = {"facetPageSize": facet_page_size}
if keyword: params["keyword"] = keyword
r = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/facet/projects", params=params, timeout=30)
r.raise_for_status()
return r.json()
facets = get_facets(keyword="cancer", facet_page_size=10)
print(f"Facet groups: {list(facets.keys())}")
print(f"\nTop instruments for 'cancer':")
for instr, n in sorted(facets.get("instruments", {}).items(), key=lambda kv: -kv[1])[:8]:
print(f" {instr:<35} {n}")
print(f"\nTop diseases:")
for d, n in sorted(facets.get("diseases", {}).items(), key=lambda kv: -kv[1])[:6]:
print(f" {d:<55} {n}")/projects/{accession}Full metadata for a single project: submitters, labPIs, instruments, organisms (CV-coded), diseases, experiment types, references, DOI, submission/publication dates. Lists are CvParam-style objects with accession, cvLabel, name, optionally value.
import requests
PRIDE = "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ws/archive/v3"
def get_project(accession):
r = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/projects/{accession}", timeout=30)
r.raise_for_status()
return r.json()
p = get_project("PXD004131")
print(f"Accession : {p['accession']}")
print(f"Title : {p['title'][:80]}")
print(f"Submission : {p.get('submissionDate')}")
print(f"Publication : {p.get('publicationDate')}")
print(f"DOI : {p.get('doi')}")
print(f"License : {p.get('license')}")
print(f"Type : {p.get('submissionType')}")
print(f"Organisms : {[o['name'] for o in p.get('organisms', [])]}")
print(f"Instruments : {[i['name'] for i in p.get('instruments', [])]}")
print(f"Experiment : {[e['name'] for e in p.get('experimentTypes', [])]}")
print(f"PIs : {[pi.get('name') for pi in p.get('labPIs', [])]}")
print(f"References : {[r.get('doi') for r in p.get('references', [])[:3]]}")/projects/{accession}/files + /files/allList the files associated with a project. Use the paginated endpoint for large projects; /files/all returns every file in one shot. Each file record carries fileCategory.value (one of RAW, PEAK, RESULT, FASTA, OTHER), fileSizeBytes (note the Bytes suffix — not fileSize), and a list of publicFileLocations each labeled FTP Protocol or Aspera Protocol.
import requests, pandas as pd
PRIDE = "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ws/archive/v3"
def get_project_files(accession, file_type=None, page_size=100):
"""Walk paginated /files for a project. Optionally filter by category code
(RAW, PEAK, RESULT, FASTA, OTHER). Returns a DataFrame."""
rows, page = [], 0
while True:
r = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/projects/{accession}/files",
params={"pageSize": page_size, "page": page},
timeout=30)
r.raise_for_status()
batch = r.json()
if not batch:
break
for f in batch:
cat = f.get("fileCategory") or {}
ftp = next((loc["value"] for loc in f.get("publicFileLocations", [])
if loc.get("name") == "FTP Protocol"), "")
asp = next((loc["value"] for loc in f.get("publicFileLocations", [])
if loc.get("name") == "Aspera Protocol"), "")
rows.append({
"file_name": f.get("fileName"),
"category": cat.get("value"), # RAW/PEAK/RESULT/FASTA/OTHER
"size_mb": round((f.get("fileSizeBytes") or 0) / 1e6, 2),
"ftp_url": ftp,
"aspera_url": asp,
"downloads": f.get("totalDownloads"),
})
if len(batch) < page_size:
break
page += 1
df = pd.DataFrame(rows)
if file_type:
df = df[df["category"] == file_type]
return df
files_df = get_project_files("PXD004131")
print(f"Total files: {len(files_df)}")
print(files_df.groupby("category")["size_mb"].agg(["count", "sum"]).round(1).to_string())
raw_only = files_df[files_df["category"] == "RAW"]
print(f"\nRAW files: {len(raw_only)}; combined {raw_only['size_mb'].sum():.0f} MB")
print(raw_only[["file_name", "size_mb", "downloads"]].head(5).to_string(index=False))# /files/all returns every file in one response — convenient for small projects
files = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/projects/PXD000001/files/all", timeout=60).json()
print(f"PXD000001 files (all): {len(files)}")
for f in files[:4]:
print(f" [{f.get('fileCategory',{}).get('value','?'):<6}] {f['fileName']} "
f"{f.get('fileSizeBytes',0)/1e6:.2f} MB")/files/sdrf/{projectAccession}PRIDE projects that follow the modern submission standard include an SDRF (Sample-Data Relationship Format) TSV that maps each MS run to its biological sample, treatment, label, fraction, etc. Pull it once, parse it as a TSV.
import requests, pandas as pd, io
PRIDE = "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ws/archive/v3"
def get_sdrf(accession):
"""Fetch the SDRF sample-to-run mapping for a project (404 if not provided)."""
r = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/files/sdrf/{accession}", timeout=30)
if r.status_code == 404:
return None
r.raise_for_status()
return pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(r.text), sep="\t")
# Many older projects have no SDRF — newer ones typically do
sdrf = get_sdrf("PXD000001")
if sdrf is None or sdrf.empty:
print("No SDRF available for this project")
else:
print(f"SDRF rows: {len(sdrf)} cols: {len(sdrf.columns)}")
print(f"First columns: {list(sdrf.columns)[:8]}")/proteins/{accession}PRIDE v3's protein endpoint returns only the list of project accessions that contain identifications for the given UniProt accession. It does not return PSM counts, peptide counts, or sequence coverage — those are not exposed at the API surface in v3. For depth metrics you must download a project's RESULT files and parse them locally.
import requests
PRIDE = "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ws/archive/v3"
def get_protein_projects(uniprot_acc):
"""Return the list of PRIDE project accessions that mention this UniProt accession.
No PSM/peptide/coverage counts are available at this endpoint."""
r = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/proteins/{uniprot_acc}", timeout=30)
if r.status_code == 404:
return None
r.raise_for_status()
data = r.json()
return data.get("projects", [])
tp53 = get_protein_projects("P04637")
print(f"TP53 (P04637) is reported in {len(tp53)} PRIDE projects")
print(f"First 8: {tp53[:8]}")
unknown = get_protein_projects("Q99999")
print(f"\nQ99999 (no real protein): "
f"{'no PRIDE evidence' if not unknown else f'{len(unknown)} projects'}")/projects/{accession}/similarProjects returns projects with related metadata signatures (organism, instrument, experiment type, tags). /search/autocomplete?keyword=... returns project titles starting with the prefix — useful to suggest searches.
import requests, pandas as pd
PRIDE = "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ws/archive/v3"
# Find similar projects to one of interest
similar = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/projects/PXD004131/similarProjects",
params={"pageSize": 5}, timeout=30).json()
print(f"Similar to PXD004131: {len(similar)} projects")
for p in similar[:5]:
print(f" {p['accession']} {(p.get('title') or '')[:70]}")
# Autocomplete suggestions for a project-title prefix
suggestions = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/search/autocomplete",
params={"keyword": "tp53"}, timeout=30).json()
print(f"\nAutocomplete for 'tp53': {len(suggestions)} suggestions")
for s in suggestions[:5]:
print(f" {s}")/projects/count, /files/countGet total counts across the repository — useful for status displays and sanity checks. Both endpoints return a plain integer body (no JSON object wrapper).
import requests
PRIDE = "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ws/archive/v3"
n_projects = int(requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/projects/count", timeout=30).text)
n_files = int(requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/files/count", timeout=30).text)
print(f"PRIDE Archive current scale:")
print(f" Projects: {n_projects:,}")
print(f" Files: {n_files:,}")PRIDE v3 list endpoints return plain JSON arrays — for example /search/projects returns [{...}, {...}, ...] directly. There is no _embedded.compactprojects, no page.totalElements/totalPages, no _links.next.href. Older PRIDE v2 clients that parsed data["_embedded"]["compactprojects"] will silently return empty against the current API. To paginate, walk page=0, 1, 2, ... until you get an empty array (or a partial page shorter than pageSize).
The endpoint families below no longer exist in v3 (and v2 is now an alias for v3 internally — error messages from /v2/peptides literally report path: "/pride/ws/archive/v3/peptides"):
| Removed endpoint | Status in v3 | Replacement |
|---|---|---|
GET /peptides?projectAccessions=X | 404 | None — download project's RESULT files and parse |
GET /psms?projectAccessions=X | 404 | None — download RESULT files |
GET /proteins?proteinAccession=X (query-param style) | 404 | GET /proteins/{accession} (path-param) |
HAL+JSON _embedded/page wrapper | Gone | Plain JSON array |
/projects?keyword=...&organisms=...&tissues=... filters | Silently ignored | /search/projects?keyword=...&filter=field==value |
/search/projectsThe filter query parameter takes a comma-separated list of field==value constraints. Field names use the _facet suffix (the underlying Solr-style field). Discover valid field names and values via /facet/projects before constructing the filter:
# Valid filter forms
"organisms_facet==Homo sapiens (human)"
"instruments_facet==Q Exactive"
"diseases_facet==Prostate adenocarcinoma"
"softwares_facet==MaxQuant"
# Combine with commas
filter="organisms_facet==Homo sapiens (human),instruments_facet==Orbitrap Fusion Lumos"Each file in a project carries a fileCategory CV-param. The .value is a category code; the .name is the human-readable label:
value code | Description | Common formats |
|---|---|---|
RAW | Unprocessed instrument output | .raw (Thermo), .d (Bruker/Agilent), .wiff (Sciex) |
PEAK | Centroided / deconvoluted spectra | .mzML, .mzXML, .mgf |
RESULT | Identification results | .mzid, .mzTab, MaxQuant txt, PRIDE XML |
FASTA | Protein sequence database used in search | .fasta |
OTHER | Supplementary / scripts / tables | .txt, .xlsx, .csv |
For reanalysis pipelines, RESULT is the cheapest entry point — pre-identified peptides without re-searching spectra. PEAK lets you re-search with a different engine. RAW is only needed for full vendor-format reprocessing.
PRIDE project accessions follow ProteomeXchange format PXD######. These are stable across PRIDE, MassIVE, jPOST, and iProX. File accessions inside PRIDE are SHA-256-style hashes (e.g., 5bda360133398f66021c8889e01dce921cb51300c7269e1f2b0f20368ab20af6) — opaque identifiers; use fileName for human-readable filenames.
Goal: Start from a disease keyword, see which instruments and softwares are common in matching datasets via facet counts, then pull a filtered project list using one of the top values.
import requests, pandas as pd
PRIDE = "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ws/archive/v3"
disease_kw = "colorectal cancer"
# 1) Inspect facet counts to learn which filter values dominate
facets = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/facet/projects",
params={"keyword": disease_kw, "facetPageSize": 10},
timeout=30).json()
top_instr = sorted(facets.get("instruments", {}).items(), key=lambda kv: -kv[1])[:5]
top_org = sorted(facets.get("organisms", {}).items(), key=lambda kv: -kv[1])[:3]
print(f"Top instruments for '{disease_kw}':")
for k, v in top_instr: print(f" {k:<35} {v}")
print(f"Top organisms:")
for k, v in top_org: print(f" {k:<35} {v}")
# 2) Build a filtered search using one top instrument
target_instr = top_instr[0][0]
projects = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/search/projects",
params={"keyword": disease_kw,
"filter": f"organisms_facet==Homo sapiens (human),instruments_facet=={target_instr}",
"pageSize": 50,
"sortFields": "submission_date",
"sortDirection": "DESC"},
timeout=30).json()
df = pd.DataFrame([{
"accession": p["accession"],
"title": (p.get("title") or "")[:70],
"submission_date": p.get("submissionDate"),
"tissues": ", ".join(p.get("organismsPart", []))[:40],
"submitter": (p.get("submitters") or [""])[0] if p.get("submitters") else "",
} for p in projects])
print(f"\nFiltered projects: {len(df)} (target instrument: {target_instr})")
print(df.head(10).to_string(index=False))
df.to_csv(f"{disease_kw.replace(' ', '_')}_{target_instr.replace(' ', '_')}_projects.csv",
index=False)Goal: Pull the file list for a project, filter to the categories you actually want (RAW + RESULT), and emit an aria2c-ready URL list for parallel FTP download.
import requests, pandas as pd
from pathlib import Path
PRIDE = "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ws/archive/v3"
accession = "PXD004131"
keep_categories = {"RAW", "RESULT"}
output_dir = Path(f"/data/pride/{accession}")
files = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/projects/{accession}/files/all", timeout=120).json()
manifest = []
for f in files:
cat = (f.get("fileCategory") or {}).get("value")
if cat not in keep_categories:
continue
ftp = next((loc["value"] for loc in f.get("publicFileLocations", [])
if loc.get("name") == "FTP Protocol"), None)
if not ftp:
continue
manifest.append({
"file_name": f["fileName"],
"category": cat,
"size_mb": round((f.get("fileSizeBytes") or 0) / 1e6, 2),
"ftp": ftp,
})
mdf = pd.DataFrame(manifest).sort_values(["category", "file_name"])
print(f"{accession}: keeping {len(mdf)}/{len(files)} files "
f"({mdf['size_mb'].sum():.0f} MB total)")
print(mdf.groupby("category")[["size_mb"]].sum().round(0))
# aria2c -i pride_dl.list -d /data/pride/PXD004131 -x 8 -j 4
with open("pride_dl.list", "w") as fh:
fh.write("\n".join(mdf["ftp"]))
print(f"\nWrote pride_dl.list with {len(mdf)} URLs (use aria2c -i)")Goal: For a candidate protein panel (e.g., from a differential-expression analysis), look up how many PRIDE projects mention each one and shortlist the most-evidenced proteins. Note: this is a project-count signal only — there are no PSM/peptide counts at the API surface in v3, so a high project count is breadth, not depth.
import requests, time, pandas as pd, matplotlib.pyplot as plt
PRIDE = "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ws/archive/v3"
candidates = {
"P04637": "TP53", "P38398": "BRCA1", "P31749": "AKT1",
"P40763": "STAT3", "O15530": "PDPK1", "P10275": "AR",
}
rows = []
for acc, sym in candidates.items():
r = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/proteins/{acc}", timeout=30)
projs = r.json().get("projects", []) if r.status_code == 200 else []
rows.append({"uniprot": acc, "symbol": sym, "n_projects": len(projs)})
time.sleep(0.3)
df = pd.DataFrame(rows).sort_values("n_projects", ascending=False)
print(df.to_string(index=False))
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8, 3.5))
bars = ax.bar(df["symbol"], df["n_projects"], color="#3182BD")
ax.bar_label(bars, fmt="%d", fontsize=9, padding=2)
ax.set_ylabel("# PRIDE projects mentioning the protein")
ax.set_title("PRIDE project-level occurrence — candidate panel")
plt.tight_layout()
plt.savefig("pride_protein_occurrence.png", dpi=150, bbox_inches="tight")
print("Saved pride_protein_occurrence.png")| Parameter | Endpoint | Default | Range / Options | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
keyword | /search/projects, /facet/projects, /search/autocomplete | — | free-text string | Full-text search across title, description, tags |
filter | /search/projects | — | field_facet==value, field_facet==value | Server-side filter using facet field names |
pageSize | /search/projects, /projects, /projects/{acc}/files, /projects/{acc}/similarProjects | 100 | positive integer | Results per page |
page | same as above | 0 | 0-indexed integer | Page number (no metadata returned — walk pages until empty) |
sortFields | /search/projects | submission_date | comma-separated field names | Sort key(s) |
sortDirection | /search/projects | DESC | ASC or DESC | Sort order |
facetPageSize | /facet/projects | 20 | positive integer | Values returned per facet group |
dateGap | /search/projects, /facet/projects | — | e.g. +1MONTH, +1YEAR | Date-range aggregation granularity |
(path) accession | /projects/{acc}, /projects/{acc}/files, /projects/{acc}/similarProjects, /proteins/{acc} | required | PXD###### or UniProt acc | Identifies the resource |
Use /search/projects for searching, not /projects. Plain /projects is a paginated listing endpoint and silently ignores keyword / organism / disease filters. Filtering only works through /search/projects with the filter=field_facet==value syntax.
Discover filter values via /facet/projects before filtering. Facet field values must match exactly (e.g., organisms_facet==Homo sapiens (human), parentheses and all). The facet endpoint tells you which values exist and how many projects each has — saves a lot of trial-and-error.
Don't try to query peptide- or PSM-level data over the API. Those endpoints were removed in v3. Download the project's RESULT files and parse them locally with pyteomics, pyOpenMS, or a search-engine reader (MaxQuant, ProteomeDiscoverer, etc.).
Prefer FTP URLs for bulk file downloads. Each file record carries both FTP Protocol and Aspera Protocol URLs. FTP is more universally supported; pair it with aria2c -x 8 -j 4 for parallel chunks. Use Aspera only if you have an Aspera client and need >100 Mbit transfer speeds.
Watch the field name fileSizeBytes. The current v3 field is fileSizeBytes, not fileSize (old v2 docs may say fileSize). Sizes are in bytes — divide by 1e6 for MB, 1e9 for GB.
Filter file downloads by fileCategory.value. A project can have hundreds of files spanning RAW (GB-scale) and OTHER (KB-scale). Always filter to the categories you actually need before queueing downloads — otherwise you'll easily download tens of gigabytes of vendor RAW files when you only wanted the identification tables.
Pagination has no metadata — walk until empty. Unlike old PRIDE v2, the v3 API doesn't return totalElements/totalPages. Iterate page=0, 1, 2, ... and stop when a page returns an empty array, or when its length is less than pageSize.
import requests
PRIDE = "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ws/archive/v3"
def project_file_summary(accession):
files = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/projects/{accession}/files/all", timeout=60).json()
by_cat = {}
for f in files:
cat = (f.get("fileCategory") or {}).get("value", "OTHER")
by_cat.setdefault(cat, [0, 0])
by_cat[cat][0] += 1
by_cat[cat][1] += (f.get("fileSizeBytes") or 0) / 1e6
print(f"\n{accession} file summary:")
for cat, (n, mb) in sorted(by_cat.items()):
print(f" {cat:<8} {n:>4} file(s) {mb:>10.1f} MB")
total_mb = sum(mb for _, mb in by_cat.values())
total_n = sum(n for n, _ in by_cat.values())
print(f" {'TOTAL':<8} {total_n:>4} file(s) {total_mb:>10.1f} MB")
project_file_summary("PXD000001")import requests
PRIDE = "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ws/archive/v3"
def pride_evidence(uniprot_acc):
"""Return (has_evidence, n_projects). PRIDE v3 only exposes project list, no PSM counts."""
r = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/proteins/{uniprot_acc}", timeout=30)
if r.status_code != 200:
return False, 0
projs = r.json().get("projects", [])
return bool(projs), len(projs)
for acc in ["P04637", "Q99999"]:
has, n = pride_evidence(acc)
print(f"{acc}: evidence={has} projects={n}")import requests, pandas as pd
PRIDE = "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ws/archive/v3"
r = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/search/projects",
params={"keyword": "single-cell proteomics",
"sortFields": "submission_date",
"sortDirection": "DESC",
"pageSize": 15},
timeout=30)
recent = r.json()
df = pd.DataFrame([{
"submission_date": p.get("submissionDate"),
"accession": p["accession"],
"title": (p.get("title") or "")[:80],
} for p in recent]).sort_values("submission_date", ascending=False)
print(df.to_string(index=False))import requests
PRIDE = "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ws/archive/v3"
for prefix in ["alzheimer", "single cell", "brca"]:
s = requests.get(f"{PRIDE}/search/autocomplete",
params={"keyword": prefix}, timeout=30).json()
print(f"\n'{prefix}' → {len(s)} suggestions:")
for sug in s[:3]:
print(f" · {sug[:80]}")| Problem | Cause | Solution |
|---|---|---|
Parsing returns empty list even when r.json() has data | Code is doing data["_embedded"]["compactprojects"] — old HAL+JSON wrapper that v3 no longer returns | Parse the response directly as a list: projects = r.json() |
HTTP 404 on /peptides, /psms, or /proteins?proteinAccession=X | These endpoints were removed in v3 | For peptide/PSM data, download the project's RESULT files and parse locally. For protein lookup, use /proteins/{accession} (path param) |
/projects?keyword=cancer returns the same 100 results as /projects with no keyword | The /projects endpoint only accepts pageSize / page — keyword and other filters are silently ignored | Use /search/projects?keyword=...&filter=... instead |
/projects/{acc}/files shows file size 0 | Reading fileSize instead of fileSizeBytes | The v3 field is fileSizeBytes (bytes); compute MB via fileSizeBytes / 1e6 |
| Filter has no effect | Facet value doesn't exactly match a real value | Call /facet/projects?keyword=... first to enumerate valid values (Homo sapiens (human), not Homo sapiens) |
pageSize beyond the actual result set returns an empty array | Normal pagination behavior | Stop iterating when the returned array length is < pageSize, or when it is empty |
findAllOrganismsCount returns HTTP 406 Not Acceptable | The endpoint requires a non-JSON Accept header | Skip this endpoint — facet counts via /facet/projects cover the same need |
HTTP 429 or ConnectionError on bursts | Shared EBI infrastructure | Add time.sleep(0.3) in loops; retry on 5xx with exponential backoff |
uniprot-protein-database — UniProt sequences, Swiss-Prot annotations, ID mapping; pair with PRIDE protein lookups to enrich each UniProt accession with sequence and functional informationinterpro-database — Protein domain architecture (Pfam, SMART, PANTHER) for proteins reported in PRIDEpdb-database — Resolved 3D structures for proteins with PRIDE evidencepyteomics (off-skill Python library) — Parse mzIdentML / mzML / mzTab files downloaded from /projects/{accession}/files; the path for spectrum- and PSM-level analysis now that the REST API no longer exposes those/files/sdrf/{projectAccession}© jaechang-hits, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pride Database this skilljaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills | 371 | 1 repos | ~8.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| UniProt Database Accessdavila7/claude-code-templates | 32k | 14 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Bio Ensembl RESTGPTomics/bioSkills | 1.2k | 2 repos | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Pride FetchClawBio/ClawBio | 1.2k | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Ensembl Databaseaipoch/medical-research-skills | 2k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Biomarker Database Analysisaws-samples/amazon-bedrock-agents-healthcare-lifesciences | 274 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT-0 |
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Queries the UniProt REST API directly to search proteins, fetch FASTA sequences, map IDs between databases and read Swiss-Prot and TrEMBL entries.
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Search the PRIDE Archive v3 REST API for proteomics datasets: discover projects by keyword + faceted filters (organism, instrument, disease, software), fetch project metadata, list and download…. Pride Database is an agent skill from jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills. Search the PRIDE Archive v3 REST API for proteomics datasets: discover projects by keyword + faceted filters (organism, instrument, disease, software), fetch project metadata, list and download RAW/PEAK/RESULT/FASTA files (with FTP/Aspera URLs), look up which projects mention a UniProt accession, and find similar projects.
Pride Database fits situations like: tasks that involve Bioinformatics; tasks that involve REST APIs.
Run `npx skills add jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills --skill pride-database -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/proteomics-protein-engineering/pride-database in jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills) into .claude/skills/pride-database in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
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Skills that share tags, products or a category with Pride Database: UniProt Database Access (davila7/claude-code-templates, 32k stars), Bio Ensembl REST (GPTomics/bioSkills, 1.2k stars), Pride Fetch (ClawBio/ClawBio, 1.2k stars) and Ensembl Database (aipoch/medical-research-skills, 2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
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