target-intelligence-tools

Research

Target research workflow guide for building compact drug-target dossiers across protein identity, disease evidence, known drugs, interaction partners, pathways, and variant constraint signals. Use when the user asks for a target brief, target validation snapshot, or a one-file summary of what is known about a gene or protein target.

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Target Intelligence Tools

Use this skill when the user wants an integrated target brief rather than isolated API hits.

Typical triggers:

build a quick dossier for a therapeutic target
summarize what is known about a gene or protein target
collect disease evidence, known drugs, pathways, and interaction partners in one report
prepare a target-validation snapshot before docking, screening, or literature deepening

Environment Check

which python3 || true
python3 - <<'PY'
mods = ["requests"]
for name in mods:
    try:
        __import__(name)
        print(f"{name}: ok")
    except Exception as exc:
        print(f"{name}: missing ({exc})")
PY

If outbound network access is blocked, say so explicitly before claiming the dossier ran.

Bundled Asset

templates/target_dossier.py

Preferred Workflow

Start from the clearest target identifier available.
Resolve the target to stable IDs first.
Pull disease associations, known drugs, pathways, and interaction partners into one markdown dossier.
Keep the output compact and explicit about missing data.
Treat the dossier as a research briefing artifact, not a validated decision report.

Quick Start

python3 templates/target_dossier.py \
  --query EGFR \
  --output targets/egfr_dossier.md \
  --summary targets/egfr_dossier.json \
  --detail-json targets/egfr_dossier.detail.json

Output Expectations

Good answers should mention:

the exact identifier or query used
which stable IDs were resolved
how many disease, drug, pathway, and interaction rows were found
whether ClinVar or gnomAD constraint signals were available
where the markdown dossier and summary JSON were written

Related Skills

For raw UniProt, PDB, ClinVar, gnomAD, Reactome, STRING, or OpenTargets queries, activate bio-db-tools. For public compound and regulatory APIs such as ChEMBL, BindingDB, openFDA, ClinicalTrials.gov, or OpenAlex, activate pharma-db-tools. For local variant-callset summarization before target interpretation, activate variant-analysis-tools.