Source: https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills

When to Use

You need to discover relevant public single-cell studies by filtering on organism (e.g., human/mouse) and tissue (e.g., lung/brain).
You want to quickly retrieve study-level metadata (e.g., study name, accession, cell counts) for downstream curation or reporting.
You are building a script or tool that needs no authentication and should work reliably on Windows with minimal setup.
You want to inspect available filter facets (what tissues/diseases/cell types exist in the index) before constructing queries.
You need a lightweight way to validate that a study exists and fetch its details by accession.

Key Features

Direct REST access to the official Single Cell Portal API (/single_cell/api/v1/*)
No API key required (public endpoints)
Faceted search for studies (organism, tissue, disease, cell type, etc.)
Retrieve facet dictionaries to build valid filters
Retrieve study details by accession
Minimal dependency footprint (only requests)
Windows-friendly behavior (optional SSL verification disablement for certificate issues)