Biology Life Sciences skills for AI agents

Triggers when users need help with bioinformatics, including sequence alignment, BLAST, Smith-Waterman, and multiple sequence alignment. Activate for questions about phylogenetic analysis, RNA-seq analysis pipelines, variant calling, protein structure prediction, AlphaFold, biological databases (GenBank, UniProt, PDB), metagenomics, systems biology, and biological network analysis.

Triggers when users need help with biotechnology, including CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, gene therapy, and synthetic biology. Activate for questions about metabolic engineering, fermentation technology, protein engineering, directed evolution, transgenic organisms, industrial biotechnology applications, and bioethics of emerging technologies.

Triggers when users need help with cell biology, including cell structure, organelles, cytoskeleton, cell membrane transport and signaling. Activate for questions about the cell cycle, mitosis, meiosis, apoptosis, stem cells, cell culture techniques, microscopy methods (light, fluorescence, confocal, electron), and cellular signaling pathways.

Triggers when users need help with ecology, including population ecology, growth models, carrying capacity, and competition. Activate for questions about community ecology, food webs, biodiversity, ecological succession, ecosystem ecology, energy flow, nutrient cycling, landscape ecology, conservation biology, climate change ecology, and invasion ecology.

Triggers when users need help with evolutionary biology, including natural selection, speciation, phylogenetics, and tree construction. Activate for questions about molecular clocks, adaptive radiation, sexual selection, coevolution, evo-devo, horizontal gene transfer, molecular evolution, human evolution, and evolutionary medicine.

Triggers when users need help with genetics and genomics, including Mendelian inheritance, linkage and genetic mapping, population genetics, and quantitative traits. Activate for questions about Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, genetic drift, natural selection, genome sequencing technologies (Sanger, NGS, long-read), genome assembly, GWAS, comparative genomics, pharmacogenomics, and heredity patterns.

Triggers when users need help with immunology, including innate immunity, complement, phagocytes, and NK cells. Activate for questions about adaptive immunity, T cells, B cells, antibodies, antigen presentation, MHC, immunological memory, vaccines, autoimmune diseases, allergies, immunotherapy, checkpoint inhibitors, CAR-T cells, and transplant immunology.

Triggers when users need help with marine biology, including ocean ecosystems such as coral reefs, deep sea, and pelagic environments. Activate for questions about marine biodiversity, oceanography basics (currents, salinity, temperature), fisheries biology, marine conservation, ocean acidification, marine biotechnology, and marine research methods (ROVs, acoustic surveys, satellite tracking).

Triggers when users need help with microbiology, including bacterial structure and physiology, viral biology, and fungal biology. Activate for questions about microbial genetics, biofilms, antibiotic resistance mechanisms, clinical microbiology, environmental microbiology, microbiome science, industrial microbiology, viral replication cycles, and microbial classification.

Triggers when users need help with molecular biology concepts and techniques, including DNA replication, transcription, translation, and gene regulation. Activate for questions about operons, enhancers, epigenetics, DNA repair mechanisms, recombinant DNA technology, cloning, PCR, gel electrophoresis, the central dogma, reverse transcription, and RNA interference. Also covers molecular biology experimental design and troubleshooting.

Triggers when users need help with neuroscience, including neuron structure and function, action potentials, synaptic transmission, and neurotransmitter systems. Activate for questions about neural circuits, sensory systems, motor systems, learning and memory, LTP, neuroplasticity, brain imaging (fMRI, EEG, PET), and computational neuroscience.

Triggers when users need help with plant biology, including photosynthesis, light reactions, Calvin cycle, and C3/C4/CAM pathways. Activate for questions about plant hormones (auxin, gibberellins, ethylene), plant development, germination, flowering, plant-pathogen interactions, plant genetics and breeding, crop science, plant biotechnology, and plant ecology.