Bio Remote Homology

biotender-max/bio-remote-homology

Detect distant homologs using profile and structure-aware methods that go beyond standard BLAST. Use when sequence identity falls into the twilight zone (<35% pairwise), when BLAST fails to find homologs that should exist, when working at metagenomic scale (DIAMOND, MMseqs2), or when structure beats sequence (Foldseek). Covers PSI-BLAST (iterative PSSM), jackhmmer (iterative HMM), HHblits/HHsearch (profile-profile), DIAMOND, MMseqs2, and Foldseek (3Di structural alphabet, van Kempen 2024).

7k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

ships runnable scripts

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

132

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills --skill bio-remote-homology

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take biotender-max/bio-remote-homology from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

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