Protein Similarity Search - Search for similar proteins: extract sequence from PDB, search structures with FoldSeek, find homologs with STRING, and check UniProt. Use this skill for bioinformatics tasks involving extract pdb sequence foldseek search get best similarity hits between species search uniprotkb entries. Combines 4 tools from 3 SCP server(s).
Discipline: Bioinformatics | Tools Used: 4 | Servers: 3
Search for similar proteins: extract sequence from PDB, search structures with FoldSeek, find homologs with STRING, and check UniProt.
extract_pdb_sequence from server-1 (sse) - https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/1/VenusFactoryfoldseek_search from server-1 (sse) - https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/1/VenusFactoryget_best_similarity_hits_between_species from string-server (streamable-http) - https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/6/Origene-STRINGsearch_uniprotkb_entries from uniprot-server (streamable-http) - https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/10/Origene-UniProt{
"pdb_id": "1AKE"
}
Note: Replace
sk-b04409a1-b32b-4511-9aeb-22980abdc05cwith your own SCP Hub API Key. You can obtain one from the SCP Platform.
import asyncio
import json
from contextlib import AsyncExitStack
from mcp import ClientSession
from mcp.client.streamable_http import streamablehttp_client
from mcp.client.sse import sse_client
SERVERS = {
"server-1": "https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/1/VenusFactory",
"string-server": "https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/6/Origene-STRING",
"uniprot-server": "https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/10/Origene-UniProt"
}
async def connect(url, stack):
transport = streamablehttp_client(url=url, headers={"SCP-HUB-API-KEY": "sk-b04409a1-b32b-4511-9aeb-22980abdc05c"})
read, write, _ = await stack.enter_async_context(transport)
ctx = ClientSession(read, write)
session = await stack.enter_async_context(ctx)
await session.initialize()
return session
def parse(result):
try:
if hasattr(result, 'content') and result.content:
c = result.content[0]
if hasattr(c, 'text'):
try: return json.loads(c.text)
except: return c.text
return str(result)
except: return str(result)
async def main():
async with AsyncExitStack() as stack:
# Connect to required servers
sessions = {}
sessions["server-1"] = await connect("https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/1/VenusFactory", stack)
sessions["string-server"] = await connect("https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/6/Origene-STRING", stack)
sessions["uniprot-server"] = await connect("https://scp.intern-ai.org.cn/api/v1/mcp/10/Origene-UniProt", stack)
# Execute workflow steps
# Step 1: Extract sequence from PDB
result_1 = await sessions["server-1"].call_tool("extract_pdb_sequence", arguments={})
data_1 = parse(result_1)
print(f"Step 1 result: {json.dumps(data_1, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)[:500]}")
# Step 2: Search similar structures via FoldSeek
result_2 = await sessions["server-1"].call_tool("foldseek_search", arguments={})
data_2 = parse(result_2)
print(f"Step 2 result: {json.dumps(data_2, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)[:500]}")
# Step 3: Find cross-species homologs with STRING
result_3 = await sessions["string-server"].call_tool("get_best_similarity_hits_between_species", arguments={})
data_3 = parse(result_3)
print(f"Step 3 result: {json.dumps(data_3, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)[:500]}")
# Step 4: Search UniProt for related entries
result_4 = await sessions["uniprot-server"].call_tool("search_uniprotkb_entries", arguments={})
data_4 = parse(result_4)
print(f"Step 4 result: {json.dumps(data_4, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)[:500]}")
# Cleanup
print("Workflow complete!")
if __name__ == "__main__":
asyncio.run(main())