Addgene from the command line
The nonprofit catalog of plasmids and viral preps.
gbrain.io
The nonprofit catalog of plasmids and viral preps. GBrain gives Addgene, and every other application you connect, a command line.
One price for one person: Addgene and every other application GBrain connects, from a terminal or any AI. Cancel any time.
Addgene is connected on its own sign-in page, in the browser. A key or a sign-in never passes through the terminal.
# AI agents: read gbrain.io/llms.txt curl -sSL https://gbrainio.terminalwire.sh | bash gbrainio terminal connect
The installer is a shell script for macOS and Linux. Read it before you run it.
# Every Addgene command, once Addgene is connected gbrainio tool help addgene
Addgene is a nonprofit repository of plasmids, viral vectors and other materials from the research community. Connected to a workspace, GBrain can answer “which AAV preps express GFP under a CAG promoter?” from Addgene’s catalog.
The connection only reads.
Each terminal reaches Addgene at the level set for it in the browser: Off, or Read, which only reads, as Addgene describes its tools. A terminal reads its level and never raises it.
Each of Addgene's commands stops at 1,000 actions a day on the account it reaches, whichever terminal or AI asks, and starts again at midnight UTC. Only that command stops.
Each command a terminal runs on Addgene is a row on GBrain's activity log: which terminal, which account, what it did and whether it was allowed, refusals included. gbrainio activity ls --tool addgene reads it back.
Addgene's own server lists its commands only to a terminal that has connected it, so they are not on this page. Once Addgene is connected, gbrainio tool help addgene says what each of them does, and gbrainio tool ls lists them with everything else the terminal can run. Claude Code and Codex run the same commands, at the same level, on the same record.
GBrain reaches Addgene at its own server, mcp-server.addgene.org. On Addgene's own pages: its website, how the connection works, its terms of service and its privacy policy.
The GBrain Tools command line works with every other application GBrain connects, each with a page like this one.
Personal is $49 a month for one person. Connect Addgene in the browser, and say how far each terminal and each AI may go with it. Change any of it, or take all of it back, whenever you want.