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tooluniverse-synthetic-biology-parts

Look up synthetic biology genetic parts (promoters, RBS, CDS/genes, terminators, reporters, composite devices) from the SynBioHub repository, including the iGEM Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Use when someone asks to "find a genetic part", "look up a BioBrick", "search SynBioHub", "get the sequence for BBa_...", "browse iGEM part collections", "find a promoter/RBS/terminator for a genetic circuit", or "what parts are available for [organism/function]". NOT for plasmid backbone/vector lookup by catalog ID (use tooluniverse-molecular-cloning's Addgene coverage), NOT for primer design once a part sequence is chosen (use tooluniverse-primer-design). Honest: SynBioHub disabled anonymous public REST access upstream — every unauthenticated call currently returns 401/HTML-login-page, verified live. This skill explains that limitation plainly and how to unlock real access (SYNBIOHUB_API_TOKEN) rather than pretending the tools work with no setup.

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# Synthetic Biology Parts Lookup (SynBioHub)

Search and retrieve genetic parts — promoters, ribosome binding sites (RBS),
coding sequences, terminators, reporters, and composite genetic devices —
from SynBioHub, the standard synthetic-biology parts repository that hosts
the iGEM Registry of Standard Biological Parts (20,000+ BioBricks), CIDAR
Lab parts, Free Genes libraries, and other public SBOL collections.

## Honesty contract (read first) — verify auth status before promising results

**Live-verified as of this writing: every anonymous call to all 3 tools below
fails.** SynBioHub disabled anonymous access to its public REST endpoints
upstream. Confirmed by actually running each tool with no token set: