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Bioskills

biotender-max/bioskills

Installs 425 bioinformatics skills covering sequence analysis, RNA-seq, single-cell, variant calling, metagenomics, structural biology, and 56 more categories. Use when setting up bioinformatics capabilities or when a bioinformatics task requires specialized skills not yet installed.

2k tokens
context cost
the whole folder, loaded on every use
2
files
ships runnable scripts
0
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 bioskills

What comes with it

4 247 bytes besides the instruction
scripts/install-bioskills.sh

The instruction itself

5 sections, as written by the author

bioSkills Installer

Meta-skill that installs the full bioSkills collection (425 skills across 62 categories) for bioinformatics analysis.

Installation

Run the bundled install script to download and install all bioSkills:

bash scripts/install-bioskills.sh

Or install only specific categories:

bash scripts/install-bioskills.sh --categories "single-cell,variant-calling,differential-expression"

What Gets Installed

425 skills across 62 categories covering:

  • Sequence & Alignment (40): sequence-io, sequence-manipulation, alignment, alignment-files, database-access
  • Read Processing (11): read-qc, read-alignment
  • RNA-seq & Expression (14): differential-expression, rna-quantification, expression-matrix
  • Single-Cell & Spatial (25): single-cell, spatial-transcriptomics
  • Variant Analysis (21): variant-calling, copy-number, phasing-imputation
  • Epigenomics (25): chip-seq, atac-seq, methylation-analysis, hi-c-analysis
  • Metagenomics & Microbiome (13): metagenomics, microbiome
  • Genomics & Assembly (29): genome-assembly, genome-annotation, genome-intervals, genome-engineering, primer-design
  • Regulatory & Causal (13): gene-regulatory-networks, causal-genomics, rna-structure
  • Temporal & Ecological (11): temporal-genomics, ecological-genomics
  • Immunology & Clinical (25): immunoinformatics, clinical-databases, tcr-bcr-analysis, epidemiological-genomics
  • Specialized Omics (36): proteomics, metabolomics, alternative-splicing, chemoinformatics, liquid-biopsy
  • RNA Biology (20): small-rna-seq, epitranscriptomics, clip-seq, ribo-seq
  • Phylogenetics & Evolution (16): phylogenetics, population-genetics, comparative-genomics
  • Structural & Systems (11): structural-biology, systems-biology
  • Screens & Cytometry (22): crispr-screens, flow-cytometry, imaging-mass-cytometry
  • Pathway & Integration (14): pathway-analysis, multi-omics-integration, restriction-analysis
  • Infrastructure (39): data-visualization, machine-learning, workflow-management, reporting, experimental-design, long-read-sequencing
  • Workflows (40): end-to-end pipelines (FASTQ to results)

After Installation

Once installed, skills are automatically triggered based on the task at hand. Example requests:

  • "I have RNA-seq counts from treated vs control samples - find the differentially expressed genes"
  • "Call variants from this whole genome sequencing BAM file"
  • "Cluster my single-cell RNA-seq data and find marker genes"
  • "Predict the structure of this protein sequence"
  • "Run a metagenomics classification on these shotgun reads"

Source

GitHub: https://github.com/GPTomics/bioSkills

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take biotender-max/bioskills 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.