Agent skill

Drug Target Interaction

by wentorai in wentorai/research-plugins

Computational drug-target interaction prediction and virtual screening

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Drug Target Interaction

skills CLI
$ npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill drug-target-interaction -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install wentorai/research-plugins drug-target-interaction --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/wentorai/research-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/domains/pharma/drug-target-interaction .claude/skills/drug-target-interaction && 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
drug-target-interaction
GitHub stars
298
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~2.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
233 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
405
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Computational drug-target interaction prediction and virtual screening

  • Tasks that involve Drug discovery and cheminformatics
  • SKILL.md covers Drug-Target Interaction…, Molecular Fingerprints and…, Machine Learning for DTI… and Molecular Docking, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Machine learning

What it does

Drug Target Interaction is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins. Computational drug-target interaction prediction and virtual screening

Its SKILL.md is about 2.2k 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 Drug discovery and cheminformatics and Machine learning. The repository describes itself as: 350+ academic research skills, MCP configs, and plugins for Research-Claw and AI agents. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Drug discovery and cheminformatics
  • Tasks that involve Machine learning

Example prompts

  • “/drug-target-interaction”

Requirements

  • Python 3

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bf44b3c. 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

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are python).

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    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

Drug Target Interaction loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 24 tokens; SKILL.md has 233 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~24
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.2k

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

The full file from wentorai/research-plugins at commit bf44b3c, republished under its MIT licence (© wentorai). 233 words, ~2,176 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/drug-target-interaction/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
drug-target-interaction
description
Computational drug-target interaction prediction and virtual screening

Drug-Target Interaction Prediction

A skill for computational prediction of drug-target interactions (DTI), covering molecular docking, machine learning-based binding affinity prediction, compound library screening, and target identification using cheminformatics and structural biology tools.

Drug-Target Interaction Databases

Key Data Resources
DatabaseContentAccess
ChEMBL2.4M compounds, 15M bioactivitiesREST API, SQL dump
BindingDB2.8M binding data pointsBulk download, REST API
DrugBank15,000+ drug entries with targetsAcademic license
PDB (Protein Data Bank)220,000+ 3D structuresFree download, REST API
UniProt250M+ protein sequencesFree, REST API
STITCHChemical-protein interactionsFree academic access
Fetching Bioactivity Data
python
from chembl_webresource_client.new_client import new_client

def get_target_bioactivities(target_chembl_id: str,
                              activity_type: str = "IC50",
                              max_nm: float = 10000) -> list[dict]:
    """
    Retrieve bioactivity data for a protein target from ChEMBL.
    Returns compounds with measured binding/inhibition values.
    """
    activity = new_client.activity
    results = activity.filter(
        target_chembl_id=target_chembl_id,
        standard_type=activity_type,
        standard_relation="=",
        standard_units="nM",
    ).only([
        "molecule_chembl_id", "canonical_smiles",
        "standard_value", "standard_type",
        "pchembl_value", "assay_description",
    ])

    filtered = []
    for r in results:
        if r.get("standard_value") and float(r["standard_value"]) <= max_nm:
            filtered.append({
                "molecule_id": r["molecule_chembl_id"],
                "smiles": r["canonical_smiles"],
                "activity_type": r["standard_type"],
                "value_nM": float(r["standard_value"]),
                "pchembl": float(r["pchembl_value"]) if r.get("pchembl_value") else None,
            })
    return filtered

Molecular Fingerprints and Descriptors

Computing Molecular Representations
python
from rdkit import Chem
from rdkit.Chem import AllChem, Descriptors, rdMolDescriptors
import numpy as np

def compute_fingerprints(smiles_list: list[str],
                          fp_type: str = "morgan",
                          radius: int = 2,
                          n_bits: int = 2048) -> np.ndarray:
    """
    Compute molecular fingerprints from SMILES strings.
    fp_type: 'morgan' (ECFP-like), 'maccs', 'rdkit', 'topological'
    """
    fps = []
    for smi in smiles_list:
        mol = Chem.MolFromSmiles(smi)
        if mol is None:
            fps.append(np.zeros(n_bits))
            continue

        if fp_type == "morgan":
            fp = AllChem.GetMorganFingerprintAsBitVect(mol, radius, nBits=n_bits)
        elif fp_type == "maccs":
            fp = rdMolDescriptors.GetMACCSKeysFingerprint(mol)
        elif fp_type == "rdkit":
            fp = Chem.RDKFingerprint(mol, fpSize=n_bits)
        else:
            fp = AllChem.GetMorganFingerprintAsBitVect(mol, radius, nBits=n_bits)

        arr = np.zeros(len(fp))
        Chem.DataStructs.ConvertToNumpyArray(fp, arr)
        fps.append(arr)

    return np.array(fps)

def compute_descriptors(smiles: str) -> dict:
    """Compute physicochemical descriptors for a molecule."""
    mol = Chem.MolFromSmiles(smiles)
    if mol is None:
        return {}
    return {
        "molecular_weight": Descriptors.MolWt(mol),
        "logP": Descriptors.MolLogP(mol),
        "hbd": Descriptors.NumHDonors(mol),
        "hba": Descriptors.NumHAcceptors(mol),
        "tpsa": Descriptors.TPSA(mol),
        "rotatable_bonds": Descriptors.NumRotatableBonds(mol),
        "aromatic_rings": Descriptors.NumAromaticRings(mol),
        "lipinski_violations": sum([
            Descriptors.MolWt(mol) > 500,
            Descriptors.MolLogP(mol) > 5,
            Descriptors.NumHDonors(mol) > 5,
            Descriptors.NumHAcceptors(mol) > 10,
        ]),
    }

Machine Learning for DTI Prediction

Binary Classification Model
python
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
from sklearn.model_selection import StratifiedKFold
from sklearn.metrics import roc_auc_score, average_precision_score

def train_dti_classifier(compound_fps: np.ndarray,
                          target_features: np.ndarray,
                          labels: np.ndarray) -> dict:
    """
    Train a DTI classifier using compound-target pair features.
    compound_fps: molecular fingerprints (n_samples, fp_dim)
    target_features: protein descriptors (n_samples, target_dim)
    labels: binary interaction labels (1=interacts, 0=no interaction)
    """
    # Concatenate compound and target features
    X = np.hstack([compound_fps, target_features])
    y = labels

    skf = StratifiedKFold(n_splits=5, shuffle=True, random_state=42)
    metrics = {"auroc": [], "auprc": []}

    for train_idx, test_idx in skf.split(X, y):
        model = RandomForestClassifier(
            n_estimators=500, max_depth=20, n_jobs=-1, random_state=42
        )
        model.fit(X[train_idx], y[train_idx])
        pred_proba = model.predict_proba(X[test_idx])[:, 1]

        metrics["auroc"].append(roc_auc_score(y[test_idx], pred_proba))
        metrics["auprc"].append(average_precision_score(y[test_idx], pred_proba))

    return {
        "mean_auroc": np.mean(metrics["auroc"]),
        "mean_auprc": np.mean(metrics["auprc"]),
        "model": model,
    }
Deep Learning Approaches

Modern DTI prediction architectures:

MethodCompound RepresentationTarget RepresentationArchitecture
DeepDTASMILES (1D CNN)Protein sequence (1D CNN)Concatenation + FC
GraphDTAMolecular graph (GCN/GAT)Protein sequence (CNN)Graph + sequence fusion
MolTransSMILES (Transformer)Protein sequence (Transformer)Cross-attention
DrugBANMolecular graphProtein graphBilinear attention

Molecular Docking

Structure-Based Virtual Screening
python
import subprocess

def run_autodock_vina(receptor_pdbqt: str, ligand_pdbqt: str,
                      center: tuple, box_size: tuple = (20, 20, 20),
                      exhaustiveness: int = 8) -> dict:
    """
    Run AutoDock Vina for molecular docking.
    receptor_pdbqt: path to prepared receptor file
    ligand_pdbqt: path to prepared ligand file
    center: (x, y, z) coordinates of the binding site center
    Returns docking scores and poses.
    """
    cmd = [
        "vina",
        "--receptor", receptor_pdbqt,
        "--ligand", ligand_pdbqt,
        "--center_x", str(center[0]),
        "--center_y", str(center[1]),
        "--center_z", str(center[2]),
        "--size_x", str(box_size[0]),
        "--size_y", str(box_size[1]),
        "--size_z", str(box_size[2]),
        "--exhaustiveness", str(exhaustiveness),
        "--num_modes", "9",
    ]
    result = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, text=True)
    # Parse output for binding affinities
    scores = []
    for line in result.stdout.split("\n"):
        parts = line.split()
        if len(parts) >= 4 and parts[0].isdigit():
            scores.append({
                "mode": int(parts[0]),
                "affinity_kcal_mol": float(parts[1]),
                "rmsd_lb": float(parts[2]),
                "rmsd_ub": float(parts[3]),
            })
    return {"scores": scores, "best_affinity": scores[0]["affinity_kcal_mol"] if scores else None}

Validation and Benchmarking

Standard benchmarks for DTI prediction:

  • DUD-E: Directory of Useful Decoys, Enhanced (102 targets, 22,886 actives)
  • MUV: Maximum Unbiased Validation datasets (17 targets)
  • LIT-PCBA: Large-scale confirmatory bioassay benchmark
  • Davis and KIBA: Kinase binding affinity datasets for regression

Tools and Libraries

  • RDKit: Open-source cheminformatics toolkit
  • AutoDock Vina / Smina: Molecular docking engines
  • OpenMM: GPU-accelerated molecular dynamics
  • DeepChem: Deep learning for drug discovery
  • PyMOL / ChimeraX: Molecular visualization
  • Open Babel: Chemical file format conversion

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/domains/pharma/drug-target-interaction of wentorai/research-plugins.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bf44b3c

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 wentorai/research-plugins, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Drug Target Interaction

What does Drug Target Interaction do?

Computational drug-target interaction prediction and virtual screening. Drug Target Interaction is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins.

When should I use Drug Target Interaction?

Drug Target Interaction fits situations like: tasks that involve Drug discovery and cheminformatics; tasks that involve Machine learning.

How do I install Drug Target Interaction in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill drug-target-interaction -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/domains/pharma/drug-target-interaction in wentorai/research-plugins) into .claude/skills/drug-target-interaction in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Drug Target Interaction in Codex?

Run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill drug-target-interaction -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/domains/pharma/drug-target-interaction in wentorai/research-plugins) into .agents/skills/drug-target-interaction in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Drug Target Interaction 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 wentorai/research-plugins --skill drug-target-interaction -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/drug-target-interaction, .gemini/skills/drug-target-interaction, .github/skills/drug-target-interaction and .opencode/skills/drug-target-interaction in your project.

What does Drug Target Interaction need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Drug Target Interaction is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Drug Target Interaction access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Drug Target Interaction 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 Drug Target Interaction use?

Drug Target Interaction is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Drug Target Interaction use?

About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Drug Target Interaction?

wentorai (a GitHub user) maintains it in wentorai/research-plugins, which has 298 GitHub stars. The repository holds 405 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 19, 2026.

Source: wentorai/research-plugins on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.