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tooluniverse-data-wrangling

Universal data access reference for scientific research. Teaches how to download bulk data, parse any scientific file format (VCF, h5ad, mzML, PDB, FASTA, XPT, NIfTI, and 30+ more), paginate REST APIs, and handle authentication. Covers 24 domain API patterns across ALL life science data sources — genomics, proteomics, clinical, imaging, ecology, and more. Use this skill whenever you need to download raw data, parse a file format, access a bulk API, write a multi-step data retrieval workflow, or when a ToolUniverse tool returns metadata but you need the actual data. Also use when the data source has no ToolUniverse tool at all. Even if the user doesn't say "data wrangling" — if their task requires getting data from a scientific database or parsing a scientific file format, this is the skill to use.

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Updated 3/29/2026
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quick start

Installation and usage

Universal data access reference for scientific research. Teaches how to download bulk data, parse any scientific file format (VCF, h5ad, mzML, PDB, FASTA, XPT, NIfTI, and 30+ more), paginate REST APIs, and handle authentication. Covers 24 domain API patterns across ALL life science data sources — genomics, proteomics, clinical, imaging, ecology, and more. Use this skill whenever you need to download raw data, parse a file format, access a bulk API, write a multi-step data retrieval workflow, or when a ToolUniverse tool returns metadata but you need the actual data. Also use when the data source has no ToolUniverse tool at all. Even if the user doesn't say "data wrangling" — if their task requires getting data from a scientific database or parsing a scientific file format, this is the skill to use.

Installation
$ install --globalskills.sh
Usage

Once installed, you can use this skill by running the following command in your terminal:

skills use tooluniverse-data-wrangling