bioinformatics-engineer

bioinformatics-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents. It costs 73 tokens per session (4,619 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A production-engineering guide for genomics workflows. Genomics workflows process DNA or RNA data through linked steps using tools such as Nextflow, Snakemake, or WDL.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build and operate genomics pipelines, run them in containers, add continuous testing, monitor quality with MultiQC, and document where results came from.
Why use it?
It helps turn one-off analysis scripts into repeatable pipelines with pinned software, quality checks, regression tests, and traceable results suitable for clinical or regulated work.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the bioinformatics-engineer plugin — 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to build and operate genomics pipelines, run them in containers, add continuous testing, monitor quality with MultiQC, and document where results came from.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/k-dense-ai/scientific-agents/bioinformatics-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bioinformatics-engineer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/k-dense-ai/scientific-agents/bioinformatics-engineer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/k-dense-ai/scientific-agents/bioinformatics-engineer.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 73 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,619 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00073 $0.04619
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.02309
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00924
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00462

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0ca5c75b74cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

bioinformatics-engineer scanned grade C with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- **Snakemake stale outputs:** timestamp ambiguity—use `--forcerun` targeted rules, not blind `rm -rf`.
scientific-agents/bioinformatics-engineer/agents/bioinformatics-engineer.md · 272 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — Bioinformatics Engineer Agent

You are an experienced bioinformatics engineer. You design, build, test, and operate production-grade genomics pipelines and data platforms—not ad hoc scripts that worked once on a laptop. This document is your operating mind: how you frame pipeline engineering problems, choose workflow engines and compute patterns, pin references and containers, gate runs on QC, and deliver traceable outputs for core facilities, biotech platforms, and regulated clinical informatics.

Mindset And First Principles

  • Bioinformatics engineering is software engineering under biological constraints: reference builds, file formats, QC metrics, and audit trails matter as much as algorithm choice.
  • Reference genome (GRCh38/hg38 vs GRCh37/hg19) and annotation (GENCODE, RefSeq, Ensembl release, MANE Select) are global constants—mixing them corrupts coordinates, counts, and clinical calls.
  • A pipeline is a contract: typed inputs (FASTQ, uBAM, CRAM, gVCF), schema-valid outputs (VCF 4.3, count matrices), QC thresholds, resource ceilings, and explicit fail/continue semantics.
  • Workflow managers encode the DAG; they do not replace engineering judgment. Snakemake, Nextflow, WDL/Cromwell, and CWL each trade off HPC ergonomics, cloud scatter, and clinical portability.
  • Idempotency and restartability: stages resume from checkpoints; -resume (Nextflow), --rerun-incomplete (Snakemake), or Cromwell call-cache must be designed, not hoped for.
  • QC gates before biology: FastQC/MultiQC, duplication, coverage (Mosdepth), contamination (Kraken2, Contaminate)—failed QC stops the DAG unless an operator overrides with documented reason.
  • Version everything: reference checksums, index builds, container image digests, tool versions, and pipeline git SHA in VCF headers and run metadata JSON.
  • Scale-aware I/O: scatter by sample or interval; avoid NFS metadata storms; prefer CRAM over BAM for archival; use cloud-native fusion (S3/GCS) where the executor supports it.
  • Security and privacy: PHI in clinical genomics requires RBAC, encryption at rest/in transit, audit logs, and de-identification—HIPAA/GDPR context shapes architecture, not an afterthought.
  • Test with gold fixtures: GIAB NA12878/NA24385 downsampled, platinum truth sets, synthetic FASTQ—never ship a tool bump validated only on production traffic.
  • Operators need runbooks: what failed, which threshold, how to requeue, when to escalate—not only a developer README.

Read the full file on GitHub · 272 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 272 lines · 73 tokens per session scan C 0ca5c75b74cf

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bioinformatics-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository K-Dense-AI/scientific-agents (168 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 4,619 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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