Research & Search

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Maps the roles, institutions, and access channels a journalist needs to identify who actually controls a given policy area — from elected officials to unelected technocrats to influential advisers.

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Produces a structured verification checklist for any scientific paper or research claim you plan to cite, covering every step a journalist should take to confirm the paper is valid, current, and not disputed or retracted.

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Translates dense scientific terminology from academic papers, press releases, or expert interviews into plain English a journalist can quote or paraphrase.

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Identifies the editorial angle, narrative frame, and implicit assumptions a competitor has used on a story, so you can make a deliberate choice about how to frame your own coverage differently or more effectively.

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Produces a structured pre-interview research brief on a potential source, covering their professional background, public positions, known biases, potential conflicts of interest, and suggested lines of questioning.

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Identifies which museums, national archives, libraries, film institutes, or specialist collections are most likely to hold historical material relevant to your story or documentary subject.

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Produces a structured research framework for building a verified publication history for a named author, journalist, scientist, or academic — listing where to look, what to record, and how to assess the significance and credibility of their output.

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Produces a structured, plain-language briefing on the state of scientific research for a given topic — summarising what is established, what is contested, and what remains unknown.

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Interprets audience engagement signals from a competitor's published piece — comments, shares, reader responses, social traction — to identify what resonated with the audience and why.

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Translates the key findings of a scientific paper — abstract, methods, and conclusions — into clear, accurate plain English that any reader can understand without specialist knowledge.

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Researches and compares potential locations for a filmed or recorded interview, evaluating each against practical criteria — visual suitability, acoustic quality, access, and narrative fit — and producing a ranked shortlist with a recommendation.

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Comprehensive biosignal processing toolkit for analysing physiological data including ECG, EEG, EDA, RSP, PPG, EMG, and EOG signals. Use this skill when processing cardiovascular signals, brain activity, electrodermal responses, respiratory patterns, muscle activity, or eye movements. Applicable for heart rate variability analysis, event-related potentials, complexity measures, autonomic nervous system assessment, psychophysiology research, and multi-modal physiological signal integration.

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Comprehensive toolkit for creating, analysing, and visualising complex networks and graphs in Python. Use when working with network/graph data structures, analysing relationships between entities, computing graph algorithms (shortest paths, centrality, clustering), detecting communities, generating synthetic networks, or visualising network topologies. Applicable to social networks, biological networks, transportation systems, citation networks, and any domain involving pairwise relationships.

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Query openFDA API for drugs, devices, adverse events, recalls, regulatory submissions (510k, PMA), substance identification (UNII), for FDA regulatory data analysis and safety research.

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Create professional infographics using Nano Banana Pro AI with smart iterative refinement. Uses Gemini 3 Pro for quality review. Integrates research-lookup and web search for accurate data. Supports 10 infographic types, 8 industry styles, and colorblind-safe palettes.

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Search the web, extract URL content, and run deep research using the Parallel Chat API and Extract API. Use for ALL web searches, research queries, and general information gathering. Provides synthesised summaries with citations.

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Self-hosted, open-source alternative to Google NotebookLM for AI-powered research and document analysis. Use when organising research materials into notebooks, ingesting diverse content sources (PDFs, videos, audio, web pages, Office documents), generating AI-powered notes and summaries, creating multi-speaker podcasts from research, chatting with documents using context-aware AI, searching across materials with full-text and vector search, or running custom content transformations. Supports 16+ AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Ollama, Groq, and Mistral with complete data privacy through self-hosting.

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Access BRENDA enzyme database via SOAP API. Retrieve kinetic parameters (Km, kcat), reaction equations, organism data, and substrate-specific enzyme information for biochemical research and metabolic pathway analysis.

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Access COSMIC cancer mutation database. Query somatic mutations, Cancer Gene Census, mutational signatures, gene fusions, for cancer research and precision oncology. Requires authentication.

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Direct REST API access to PubMed. Advanced Boolean/MeSH queries, E-utilities API, batch processing, citation management. For Python workflows, prefer biopython (Bio.Entrez). Use this for direct HTTP/REST work or custom API implementations.

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Write competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC. Agency-specific formatting, review criteria, budget preparation, broader impacts, significance statements, innovation narratives, and compliance with submission requirements.

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Look up current research information using the Parallel Chat API (primary) or Perplexity sonar-pro-search (academic paper searches). Automatically routes queries to the best backend. Use for finding papers, gathering research data, and verifying scientific information.

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Access comprehensive LaTeX templates, formatting requirements, and submission guidelines for major scientific publication venues (Nature, Science, PLOS, IEEE, ACM), academic conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, CHI), research posters, and grant proposals (NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA). This skill should be used when preparing manuscripts for journal submission, conference papers, research posters, or grant proposals and need venue-specific formatting requirements and templates.

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Efficient database search tool for bioRxiv preprint server. Use this skill when searching for life sciences preprints by keywords, authors, date ranges, or categories, retrieving paper metadata, downloading PDFs, or conducting literature reviews.

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Query Ensembl genome database REST API for 250+ species. Gene lookups, sequence retrieval, variant analysis, comparative genomics, orthologs, VEP predictions, for genomic research.

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Query the OFR (Office of Financial Research) Hedge Fund Monitor API for hedge fund data including SEC Form PF aggregated statistics, CFTC Traders in Financial Futures, FICC Sponsored Repo volumes, and FRB SCOOS dealer financing terms. Access time series data on hedge fund size, leverage, counterparties, liquidity, complexity, and risk management. No API key or registration required. Use when working with hedge fund data, systemic risk monitoring, financial stability research, hedge fund leverage or leverage ratios, counterparty concentration, Form PF statistics, repo market data, or OFR financial research data.

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Query and analyse scholarly literature using the OpenAlex database. This skill should be used when searching for academic papers, analysing research trends, finding works by authors or institutions, tracking citations, discovering open access publications, or conducting bibliometric analysis across 240M+ scholarly works. Use for literature searches, research output analysis, citation analysis, and academic database queries.

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Query FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) API for 800,000+ economic time series from 100+ sources. Access GDP, unemployment, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates, housing, and regional data. Use for macroeconomic analysis, financial research, policy studies, economic forecasting, and academic research requiring U.S. and international economic indicators.

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Systematically evaluate scholarly work using the ScholarEval framework, providing structured assessment across research quality dimensions including problem formulation, methodology, analysis, and writing with quantitative scoring and actionable feedback.

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Core skill for the deep research and writing tool. Write scientific manuscripts in full paragraphs (never bullet points). Use two-stage process with (1) section outlines with key points using research-lookup then (2) convert to flowing prose. IMRAD structure, citations (APA/AMA/Vancouver), figures/tables, reporting guidelines (CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA), for research papers and journal submissions.

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Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search Google Scholar and PubMed for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation information, convert DOIs to BibTeX, or ensure reference accuracy in scientific writing.

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Query and download public cancer imaging data from NCI Imaging Data Commons using idc-index. Use for accessing large-scale radiology (CT, MR, PET) and pathology datasets for AI training or research. No authentication required. Query by metadata, visualise in browser, check licenses.

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Guided statistical analysis with test selection and reporting. Use when you need help choosing appropriate tests for your data, assumption checking, power analysis, and APA-formatted results. Best for academic research reporting, test selection guidance. For implementing specific models programmatically use statsmodels.

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Query ClinicalTrials.gov via API v2. Search trials by condition, drug, location, status, or phase. Retrieve trial details by NCT ID, export data, for clinical research and patient matching.

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Generate comprehensive market research reports (50+ pages) in the style of top consulting firms (McKinsey, BCG, Gartner). Features professional LaTeX formatting, extensive visual generation with scientific-schematics and generate-image, deep integration with research-lookup for data gathering, and multi-framework strategic analysis including Porter Five Forces, PESTLE, SWOT, TAM/SAM/SOM, and BCG Matrix.

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Creative research ideation and exploration. Use for open-ended brainstorming sessions, exploring interdisciplinary connections, challenging assumptions, or identifying research gaps. Best for early-stage research planning when you do not have specific observations yet. For formulating testable hypotheses from data use hypothesis-generation.