Alterlab Gtars

alterlab-ieu/alterlab-gtars

Runs high-performance genomic interval analysis with gtars (databio), a Rust toolkit with Python bindings — the performance-critical backend for the geniml ML library. Use when computing overlaps/jaccard/coverage between BED region sets, indexing intervals with IGD, generating uniwig accumulation/coverage tracks, tokenizing genomic regions for ML, splitting single-cell fragments into pseudobulks, or computing GA4GH refget sequence digests. NOT for training region embeddings (use alterlab-geniml) or non-genomic spatial joins (use alterlab-geopandas). Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.

9k tokens

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the whole folder, loaded on every use

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instructions only

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-gtars

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take alterlab-ieu/alterlab-gtars from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.

Install what it needs

The instructions reference pip, uv, cargo, go. Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.