lysin

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.

Why

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.

Install

# As an MCP server (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.)
uvx lysin

# As a Python library
pip install lysin

Use

MCP tool

Once configured in your MCP client, call the lysin tool with a term:

lysin("trogocytosis")

Python library

from lysin import fetch_summary

article = fetch_summary("trogocytosis")
print(article.definition)
print(article.mechanism)
print(article.url)

Sources

• UniProt — protein function and mechanism
• Reactome — biological pathways
• Wikipedia — general biology articles

License

MIT