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chebi-skill

search ChEBI for chemical compounds and metadata

Published by OpenAI Updated Apr 10
Covers Life Sciences Bioinformatics Chemistry ChEBI

Description

Submit compact ChEBI 2.0 API requests for chemical search, compound lookup, ontology traversal, and structure metadata. Use when a user wants concise ChEBI summaries

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Operating rules

  • Use scripts/rest_request.py for all ChEBI calls.
  • Use base_url=https://www.ebi.ac.uk.
  • Prefer the documented public routes under chebi/backend/api/public/.
  • Start with es_search/ for free-text lookup and use compound/<CHEBI:id>/ for targeted records.
  • Re-run requests in long conversations instead of relying on older tool output.

Execution behavior

  • Return concise markdown summaries from the script JSON by default.
  • Return raw JSON only if the user explicitly asks for machine-readable output.
  • Prefer these paths: chebi/backend/api/public/es_search/, chebi/backend/api/public/compound/<CHEBI:id>/, and ontology child or parent routes.

Input

  • Read one JSON object from stdin.
  • Required fields: base_url, path
  • Optional fields: method, params, headers, json_body, form_body, record_path, response_format, max_items, max_depth, timeout_sec, save_raw, raw_output_path
  • Common ChEBI patterns:
    • {"base_url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk","path":"chebi/backend/api/public/es_search/","params":{"query":"caffeine","size":10},"record_path":"results","max_items":10}
    • {"base_url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk","path":"chebi/backend/api/public/compound/CHEBI:27732/"}
    • {"base_url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk","path":"chebi/backend/api/public/ontology/children/CHEBI:27732/"}

Output

  • Success returns ok, source, path, method, status_code, warnings, and either compact records or a compact summary.
  • Use raw_output_path when save_raw=true.
  • Failure returns ok=false with error.code and error.message.

Execution

echo '{"base_url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk","path":"chebi/backend/api/public/es_search/","params":{"query":"caffeine","size":10},"record_path":"results","max_items":10}' | python scripts/rest_request.py

References

  • No additional runtime references are required; keep the import package limited to this file and scripts/rest_request.py.

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