bio-chipseq-chromatin-state-segmentation

bio-chipseq-chromatin-state-segmentation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 190 tokens per session (4,201 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bioinformatics workflow that divides the genome into recurring chromatin states based on several histone-modification and protein-binding tracks. Chromatin is the DNA-protein material in chromosomes; states can represent regions such as active promoters, enhancers, or repressed DNA.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to train ChromHMM, Segway, EpiSegMix, or related models and produce genomic intervals, state-by-mark summaries, and state-transition results.
Why use it?
It combines several experimental signals into a simpler map of genome activity. This makes it easier to compare regulatory regions and cell types across large datasets.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to train ChromHMM, Segway, EpiSegMix, or related models and produce genomic intervals, state-by-mark summaries, and state-transition results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gptomics/bioskills/chromatin-state-segmentation
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add GPTomics/bioSkills --skill chromatin-state-segmentation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GPTomics/bioSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 190 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,201 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 $0.00190 $0.04201
Opus 5 $0.00095 $0.02100
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00840
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00420

Measured 6d ago against content hash c8dae5c57024, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-chipseq-chromatin-state-segmentation 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/chromhmm_pipeline.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/chromatin-state-segmentation/SKILL.md · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: ChromHMM 1.27+, Segway 3.0+, EpiSegMix 1.0+, EpiLogos (Meuleman lab), IDEAS 1.20+, samtools 1.19+, bedtools 2.31+. ChromHMM requires Java 8+; runs as java -mx<MEMORY> -jar ChromHMM.jar <command>.

Chromatin State Segmentation

"Integrate multiple histone modification ChIP-seq tracks into chromatin states" -> Learn a small set of recurring combinatorial patterns of histone marks (active promoter, active enhancer, poised enhancer, polycomb-repressed, heterochromatic, transcribed, etc.) and segment the genome by which state each region belongs to. Output: per-state genomic intervals, state-by-mark emission matrix, and state-state transition matrix.

  • CLI (canonical): ChromHMM BinarizeBam -> LearnModel -> OverlapEnrichment / NeighborhoodEnrichment
  • CLI (continuous signal): Segway train -> posterior -> annotate
  • CLI (flexible distributions): EpiSegMix (2024)
  • Visualization across biosamples: EpiLogos (Meuleman lab)
  • Cell-type-aware joint: IDEAS

Chromatin state segmentation requires a panel of histone marks; minimum 4-5 marks (e.g., H3K4me3, H3K27ac, H3K4me1, H3K36me3, H3K27me3) for meaningful states. With fewer marks, simpler peak-based annotation (chipseq/peak-annotation) is more appropriate.

Tool Taxonomy

Tool Method Strength Fails when
ChromHMM (Ernst & Kellis 2012; v1.27 current) Multivariate HMM on binarized 200 bp bins Canonical; widely used; integrated with Roadmap Epigenomics 15-state model; mature toolchain Binarization throws away signal quantitation; default 200 bp bins may be too coarse for sharp boundaries
Segway (Hoffman 2012) Dynamic Bayesian Network on continuous signal Higher resolution; uses signal magnitudes not binarized More complex setup; slower; less standardized output
EpiSegMix (Schmitz, Aggarwal, Laufer, Walter, Salhab, Rahmann 2024 Bioinformatics 40:btae178) HMM with flexible read-count distributions + duration modeling Modern; handles both narrow and broad mark distributions in one model Newer; smaller user base
EpiLogos (Meuleman lab) Multi-biosample visualization tool Built on top of ChromHMM/Segway segmentations; compare ChromHMM states across 100s of biosamples Visualization tool, not a segmentation method itself
IDEAS (Zhang 2016) Cell-type-aware joint inference Across-cell-type segmentation respecting cell-type identity Slower; complex parameter tuning
EpiCSeg (Mammana 2015) Negative binomial mixture Read-count-based; doesn't need binarization Less standardized output
GenoSTAN HMM with various emission distributions Flexible Less actively developed
Roadmap 25-state model (Kundaje 2015) ChromHMM 25-state precomputed model Reference for cross-cell-type interpretation Requires the Roadmap imputed 12-mark panel
Full-stack ChromHMM (Vu Ernst 2022) 100-state segmentation across 1032 datasets / 127 reference epigenomes Comprehensive cross-tissue annotation Computationally intensive to retrain

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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 · 292 lines · 190 tokens per session scan A c8dae5c57024

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bio-chipseq-chromatin-state-segmentation is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,199 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 190 tokens to every session and 4,201 once invoked, about $0.0010 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.

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