xby-cellosaurus

Cell lines sit at the foundation of oncology, pharmacology, and bioinformatics work. Yet the details that matter most—which tissue a line was derived from, which diseases it is linked to, what its official accession number is, which species it belongs to—are spread across thousands of records in the SIB Cellosaurus database. Browsing the website entry by entry is slow and easy to get wrong. xby-cellosaurus plugs Cellosaurus directly into DeepSeek Harness, turning cell-line lookups into a single natural-language exchange.

The plugin covers a full query workflow: Solr-syntax searches that combine name, species, disease, and tissue-source filters; precise lookups by accession number to pull every attribute of one line; reverse searches that return all cell lines associated with a given disease (hepatoblastoma, leukemia, etc.); tissue-or-organ-based filtering (liver, lung, breast, brain); and release-level metadata such as the current database version and record counts. The API key, once set during a chat session, is persisted automatically so it survives harness restarts without re-configuration.

If your day-to-day involves cell-line screening, tumour-microenvironment modelling, drug-sensitivity profiling, or single-cell data annotation, and you find yourself repeatedly checking a line's provenance, this plugin collapses that lookup into one round of conversation so your attention can stay on the experiment itself.