Cell biology term lookup — verify naming before building.
In cell biology, lysin is an enzyme that breaks down cell walls. This package "breaks down" biological terminology into its component parts — definition, mechanism, and authoritative source URL — so you can verify an analogy is grounded in real biology before naming software after it.
When building software with biology-inspired names (trogocytosis, mitosis,
endocytosis), it's easy to pick a term that sounds right but doesn't match
the actual mechanism. lysin fetches the real definition from authoritative
sources and lets you decide whether the analogy holds.
# As an MCP server (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.)
uvx lysin
# As a Python library
pip install lysinOnce configured in your MCP client, call the lysin tool with a term:
lysin("trogocytosis")
from lysin import fetch_summary
article = fetch_summary("trogocytosis")
print(article.definition)
print(article.mechanism)
print(article.url)- UniProt — protein function and mechanism
- Reactome — biological pathways
- Wikipedia — general biology articles
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