bio-chipseq-visualization

bio-chipseq-visualization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 158 tokens per session (3,791 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of workflows for turning ChIP-seq results into genome tracks, heatmaps, profiles, and browser views. ChIP-seq shows where proteins bind DNA, while these plots show that signal around genes, peaks, or other genomic regions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create bigWig signal tracks, heatmaps, average profiles, publication figures, and reproducible IGV genome-browser screenshots.
Why use it?
It makes binding patterns easier to inspect and compare. Choosing the right signal normalization is important because it determines whether visual differences reflect biology or sequencing differences.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create bigWig signal tracks, heatmaps, average profiles, publication figures, and reproducible IGV genome-browser screenshots.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gptomics/bioskills/chipseq-visualization
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 GPTomics/bioSkills --skill chipseq-visualization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GPTomics/bioSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for bio-chipseq-visualization

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gptomics/bioskills/chipseq-visualization/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/gptomics/bioskills/chipseq-visualization)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gptomics/bioskills/chipseq-visualization"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gptomics/bioskills/chipseq-visualization/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for bio-chipseq-visualization

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gptomics/bioskills/chipseq-visualization"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gptomics/bioskills/chipseq-visualization.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 158 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,791 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00158 $0.03791
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.01895
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00758
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00379

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8032f86a01ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-chipseq-visualization scanned grade A with 0 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (examples/deeptools_heatmap.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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

chip-seq/chipseq-visualization/SKILL.md · 346 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 346 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: deepTools 3.5+, pyGenomeTracks 3.9+, Gviz 1.46+, EnrichedHeatmap 1.32+, ChIPseeker 1.38+, IGV 2.17+, samtools 1.19+, bedtools 2.31+.

ChIP-seq Visualization

"Visualize ChIP-seq signal around features of interest" -> Generate normalized signal tracks (bigWig), heatmaps centered on TSS/peaks, average profile plots, and genome-browser views — with normalization that supports the biological claim (within-sample vs cross-sample vs spike-in scaled).

  • CLI (production): deepTools bamCoverage -> computeMatrix -> plotHeatmap / plotProfile
  • CLI (config-driven tracks): pyGenomeTracks (replaces Gviz for many use cases)
  • R (publication): Gviz, EnrichedHeatmap, ChIPseeker tag heatmaps
  • GUI: IGV with batch scripts for reproducible screenshots

The single most consequential choice is bigWig normalization — it determines whether visual comparison reflects biology. Get this right before generating any heatmap or browser view.

bigWig Normalization Decision Tree

Goal Method When to use
Within-sample profile of a single ChIP --normalizeUsing CPM Standard; reads per million; comparable within one library
Within-sample, length-aware --normalizeUsing BPM TPM-analog; useful for variable-width regions; less common for ChIP-seq
Cross-sample with equal effective depth --normalizeUsing RPGC --effectiveGenomeSize <N> "1x genome coverage" — assumes equal sequencing genome-wide; ENCODE convention
Cross-condition with global signal change --scaleFactor <spike_in_derived> (skip --normalizeUsing) HDACi / BETi / EZH2i; see chip-seq/spike-in-normalization
ChIP vs input ratio bamCompare --operation log2 Visualize enrichment over input
ChIP vs input control-subtracted bamCompare --operation subtract Absolute signal above background
ChIP vs input SES-corrected bamCompare --scaleFactorsMethod SES --operation log2 More robust to library size; uses signal-extraction-scaling

Read the full file on GitHub · 346 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 6d ago First seen · 346 lines · 158 tokens per session scan A 8032f86a01ec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bio-chipseq-visualization is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,199 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 158 tokens to every session and 3,791 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

html-ppt-zhangzara-monochrome

A grant proposal on CRISPR base-editing for sickle-cell disease — the hypothesis, the approach, the milestones, and the risk. Built as a decision-grade academic research deck for grant review committee.

nexu-io/open-design · 54 tokens

html-ppt-zhangzara-pin-and-paper

A field-biology capstone on urban pollinator decline — the survey design, the data, the contribution, and the caveats. Built as a decision-grade coursework defense deck for faculty reviewers.

nexu-io/open-design · 51 tokens

paper-illustration

A workflow for generating academic illustrations, such as architecture diagrams and method visuals, with image generation and repeated review. Claude plans and checks the figure during the process.

wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep · 67 tokens

paper-illustration-image2

Generate publication-quality academic illustrations through a local Codex app-server bridge that uses Codex native image generation. This is a separate experimental alternative to paper-illustration, intended for Claude Code users who want a GPT-image-style renderer without modifying the original skill.

wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep · 59 tokens

paper2video

Turn a research paper, a paper2assets package, or an existing PPT deck into a narrated MP4 video by fully delegating slide authoring to the installed ppt-master skill and fully delegating rendering, subtitles, timeline assembly, and strict media QA to the installed pptx2video skill and its public CLI. Resolves one…

microsoft/ResearchStudio · 157 tokens

figure-composer

Compose one publication-grade multi-panel figure. Start from a one-line claim plus immutable data Artifact Version references, or inspect an existing figure and draft its outline directly. Plan a 12-column panel outline, delegate one worker per panel, compose and inspect the result, then run at most three adversarial…

aipoch/open-science · 93 tokens