Who it is for
Computational biologists and life science researchers who want database lookup and cited synthesis handled together.
AI Connectors · Education & Research
Life Science Research
Research router and evidence synthesis for life sciences
Overview
What Life Science Research does
Life Science Research is a set of internal workflows for Codex that take a research question, work out which entities it refers to, normalize them, select the skills needed, and assemble an evidence-backed answer from public resources.
Subject range covers human genetics, functional genomics, expression data, pathways, protein structure, chemistry, pharmacology, published literature, clinical evidence, and the discovery of public studies. A research router entrypoint handles broad tasks, and independent lines of evidence can be split across subagents working at the same time.
The listed skills name the underlying sources, among them AlphaFold, Bgee, BindingDB, BioBank Japan PheWAS, bioRxiv, BioStudies ArrayExpress, cBioPortal, and CELLxGENE. The plugin is marked interactive, with read and write capabilities.
What stands out
Parallel subagents split independent evidence lanes, and a router picks the sources instead of requiring them to be named.
Availability
Where Life Science Research is listed
Life Science Research is listed in the ChatGPT apps directory only. OpenAI has no connector under the same domain in the Claude directory; 392 of the 3,150 products here are on both marketplaces, and this is not one of them.
ChatGPT apps are built on MCP, and the same server can back a Claude connector, so the absence is a distribution decision rather than a technical one.
ChatGPT listing
In the ChatGPT apps directory
- Developer
- OpenAI
- Filed under
- Education & Research
- Listed since
- April 2026
- Authentication
- Authenticates when installed
- Website
- openai.com
- Policies published
- Privacy policy · Terms of service
- Official listing
- Open in ChatGPT
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Named skills
Life Science Research declares 50 named skills, which puts it in the 6.7% of ChatGPT-listed apps that do.
- alphafold-skill
- bgee-skill
- bindingdb-skill
- biobankjapan-phewas-skill
- biorxiv-skill
- biostudies-arrayexpress-skill
- cbioportal-skill
- cellxgene-skill
Example prompts from the listing
- Use relevant skills and databases to support life-science research tasks.
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This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Life Science Research's public marketplace listing as it stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with OpenAI, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.
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