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Target prioritization matrix

A general, interview-driven target-discovery workbench: name the biology and the modality you care about, and get back a scored table of candidate targets — druggability, DepMap essentiality, genetic constraint, curated safety, and the real number of drugs already targeting each — assembled from GeneCore intelligence and DrugCore/TrialCore/BiomedCore/PatentCore cross-links.

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12targets scored
19→2drugs per target
5Amass Cores
You getcsv1 file
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The prompt

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Seed biology + criteriaoncology — DepMap-essential druggable protein kinases; modality: small molecule (flag PROTAC); score on essentiality, constraint, safety, competition
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Use the Target prioritization matrix skill.

Seed / scope:   oncology — DepMap-essential, druggable protein kinases (cell-cycle & mitotic checkpoint)
Modality:       small molecule (also flag PROTAC tractability)
Criteria:       target class · small-molecule tractability · DepMap essentiality · genetic constraint (LOEUF) ·
                curated safety liabilities · competition (# drugs targeting) · clinical/literature/IP activity scan
Stance:         show the full field, most-essential first, so I can weigh validation vs therapeutic-window risk
Shortlist size: 12
Output format:  markdown table + CSV

Why not just ask the model?

Ask a plain model to "shortlist druggable, essential kinase targets for oncology and score them by essentiality, safety and competition" and it names a handful of famous kinases and invents the numbers — DepMap gene-effect scores, LOEUF values, "drugs in development" counts — that read authoritative and are fabricated.

  • Plain model: a few remembered kinases; made-up essentiality, constraint, safety, and competition figures.
  • Amass: the real GeneCore records for the live filtered search — every DepMap gene-effect (PLK1 −2.73, WEE1 −2.48, CDK1 −2.34…), every gnomAD LOEUF, every curated safety liability (AURKA: mutagenic / cardiac / neutropenia), and the real referencesDrugCore edge count per target (AURKA 19 → WEE1/TTK 2), verbatim from the returned fields.

Why a skill, not a prompt?

Because the value is the interview and the orchestration, not one question. The skill asks modality first, then which criteria to score, then the output format — and turns those answers into GeneCore enum filters (targetClass=ENZYME, isEssential=true, isDruggable=true, tractabilityModality). It unions two query angles to break the 10-result cap (10 + 10, overlap 4 → 16 unique), reads the target-intelligence fields straight from the search response, then fans out one get_amass_genecore_record per candidate for the referencesDrugCore competition edge and one TrialCore / BiomedCore / PatentCore search each for the activity scan. Then — because it is a general workbench — it offers to freeze this exact configuration into a dedicated, one-line reusable skill, so the workbench spawns the narrow, repeatable tool.

Honest scope

Candidates are a union of relevance-ranked top-10 GeneCore searches — a broadened sample, not a census. Target-intelligence fields are verbatim from Open Targets / gnomAD / DepMap as harmonized in GeneCore; null = "no data recorded," not zero. drugs_targeting is the length of each gene's referencesDrugCore edge — 0 would mean unprecedented, not undruggable. The TrialCore / BiomedCore / PatentCore columns are capped ≤10 samples: on this mature class all 12 kinases saturate at 10+, so those columns don't differentiate — the discriminating competition signal is the DrugCore edge, and the skill says so rather than presenting three dead columns as a ranking. And DepMap essentiality is double-edged — a pan-essential kinase is a strong dependency and a narrow-therapeutic-window risk.

Install the skill

Add the skill to Claude

Install every Amass skill with one command — npx skills add amass-technologies/public-skills — or download the SKILL.md from GitHub and add it to Claude (Settings → Capabilities → Skills, or drop it in your Claude Code skills directory). Then paste the prompt above to trigger it.

Run it yourself

Connect Amass to Claude and paste the prompt.

No build, no deploy — the connector takes about a minute, then this workflow runs on your own inputs.