# Life Science Research (ChatGPT Plugin)

> General life-sciences research with routing, evidence synthesis, and optional parallel...

- Type: plugin
- Publisher: OpenAI (official)
- Categories: Research, Health & Fitness
- Website: https://github.com/openai/plugins/tree/main/plugins/life-science-research
- Docs: https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/plugins
- Source: https://github.com/openai/plugins
- Open in ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugins~Plugin_7113e6f705948191bad2d24c30465361
- GitHub stars: 7248
- Listed: 2026-04-09

## About

General life-sciences research workflows with query routing, evidence synthesis, and optional parallel subagent analysis across genetics, omics, biology, chemistry, structure, clinical evidence, and public dataset discovery. Routes questions across about 50 database skills including UniProt, AlphaFold, ChEMBL, PubChem, ClinicalTrials.gov, ClinVar, gnomAD, GTEx, Ensembl, Open Targets and NCBI resources. Listed in OpenAI's curated Codex marketplace (openai-curated); the manifest declares skills.

## Install

1. **Add it in ChatGPT** Open Plugins in the ChatGPT sidebar (web or desktop), search for “Life Science Research” and select +. You'll be asked to sign in to any connected service on first use. Then type @ in a chat to call it.

2. **Or install it in Codex**

   Codex CLI:

   ```bash
   codex plugin add life-science-research@openai-curated
   ```

## Skills

- **AlphaFold**: Fetch AlphaFold structure summaries
- **Bgee**: Fetch Bgee expression summaries
- **BindingDB**: Fetch BindingDB ligand-target summaries
- **BioBank Japan PheWAS**: Fetch BioBank Japan PheWAS associations
- **bioRxiv / medRxiv**: Fetch bioRxiv and medRxiv preprint summaries
- **BioStudies / ArrayExpress**: Fetch BioStudies and ArrayExpress study summaries
- **cBioPortal**: Fetch cBioPortal study and mutation summaries
- **CELLxGENE**: Fetch CELLxGENE collection summaries
- **ChEBI**: Fetch ChEBI compound summaries
- **ChEMBL**: Fetch ChEMBL activity and target summaries
- **CIViC**: Fetch CIViC cancer variant summaries
- **ClinicalTrials.gov**: Fetch ClinicalTrials.gov study summaries
- **ClinVar / NCBI Variation**: Fetch ClinVar and NCBI Variation summaries
- **EFO Ontology**: Resolve EFO terms and ontology expansions
- **ENCODE**: Fetch ENCODE dataset summaries

## Example prompts

- "Use relevant skills and databases to support life-science research tasks."
- "Summarize clinical trials for this target"
- "Find known pathogenic variants in BRCA2"

## Also available as

- app: [MCP App Basics (Apps SDK example)](https://chatgptplugins.directory/apps/apps-sdk-mcp-app-basics.md)
- MCP server: [OpenAI Docs MCP](https://chatgptplugins.directory/mcp/openai-docs.md)

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