bioinformatics-installer

bioinformatics-installer is a skill for Claude Code from ammawla/encode-toolkit. It costs 140 tokens per session (9,943 once invoked), scanned B, original, AGPL-3.0.

A guide for installing software used to analyze ENCODE and other genomics data, including command-line programs, R and Bioconductor packages, Python packages, and Nextflow infrastructure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare conda environments, R installation scripts, Python requirements, and tools such as BWA, STAR, samtools, MACS2, DESeq2, Scanpy, and Nextflow.
Why use it?
It organizes installation steps and creates environment or dependency files so the required analysis software can be set up consistently.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the encode-toolkit plugin — 47 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare conda environments, R installation scripts, Python requirements, and tools such as BWA, STAR, samtools, MACS2, DESeq2, Scanpy, and Nextflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ammawla/encode-toolkit/bioinformatics-installer
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ammawla/encode-toolkit --skill bioinformatics-installer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ammawla/encode-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install encode-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,943 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00140 $0.09943
Opus 5.5 $0.00056 $0.03977
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00028 $0.01989
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00994

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 676b7cc5d5d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

bioinformatics-installer scanned grade B with 2 findings 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/install-nextflow.sh, scripts/install-python-packages.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt-get update

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

wget http://homer.ucsd.edu/homer/configureHomer.pl
plugin/skills/bioinformatics-installer/SKILL.md · 770 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 1mo ago Changed · +48 lines scan D → B 676b7cc5d5d1
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 722 lines · 140 tokens per session scan D 2150c3875b82

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bioinformatics-installer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ammawla/encode-toolkit (21 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 9,943 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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