bio-copy-number-cnvkit-analysis

bio-copy-number-cnvkit-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 152 tokens per session (4,170 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to finding copy-number variants from sequencing data by measuring how much DNA read coverage each region receives. Copy-number variants are gains or losses of sections of DNA.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build references, normalize target and off-target coverage, divide profiles into regions, and call copy-number gains and losses.
Why use it?
It helps estimate relative gains and losses from targeted, exome, or whole-genome sequencing while making clear that read depth alone cannot determine tumor purity, ploidy, or which allele changed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to build references, normalize target and off-target coverage, divide profiles into regions, and call copy-number gains and losses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gptomics/bioskills/cnvkit-analysis
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 cnvkit-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GPTomics/bioSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,170 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 $0.00152 $0.04170
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.02085
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00834
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00417

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4d3ed2864cce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-copy-number-cnvkit-analysis 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 7d ago.

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

copy-number/cnvkit-analysis/SKILL.md · 238 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: CNVkit 0.9.10+, samtools 1.19+, bedtools 2.31+, Python 3.10+, R 4.3+ with DNAcopy 1.76+.

Before using code patterns, verify installed versions match. If versions differ:

  • CLI: cnvkit.py version then cnvkit.py batch --help to confirm flags
  • Python: pip show cnvkit then python -c "import cnvlib; help(cnvlib.read)"
  • R: packageVersion('DNAcopy') (CBS backend)

If a command throws an unrecognized-argument or AttributeError, introspect the installed version and adapt the example rather than retrying. CNVkit segmentation methods (hmm, hmm-tumor, hmm-germline) depend on pomegranate; CBS depends on Bioconductor DNAcopy.

CNVkit Copy Number Analysis

"Detect copy number variants from my exome / panel data" -> Run a read-depth pipeline: normalize on-target and off-target coverage against a reference, segment the log2-ratio profile, and call gains/losses. CNVkit is a depth-only caller — it estimates relative copy number and cannot, on its own, resolve tumor purity, ploidy, or allele-specific state. Choosing CNVkit is a decision that the experiment does not require allelic resolution.

  • CLI: cnvkit.py batch tumor.bam --normal normal.bam --targets panel.bed --fasta ref.fa
  • Python API: cnvlib.read('sample.cnr') for downstream filtering

Where CNVkit Sits — Caller Taxonomy

Caller Signal used Output Purity/ploidy aware Fails when
CNVkit Depth (on + off-target) Relative log2, threshold-called CN No (manual --purity) Sample purity < ~40%; hyper-aneuploid genome breaks median centering; balanced events invisible
GATK gCNV / somatic CNV Depth (PCA/tangent denoised) Copy-ratio segments, +/-/0 call No (somatic); ploidy prior (germline) Recurrent CNV in the PoN normalized away; ModelSegments gives no integer ASCN
ASCAT / Sequenza / FACETS Depth + B-allele frequency Integer allele-specific CN, purity, ploidy Yes (jointly fit) Near-diploid genome cannot anchor purity; low het-SNP density
ExomeDepth / GATK gCNV (cohort) Depth across a cohort Germline CN genotype Germline ploidy only < ~30-100 technically matched samples; common CNV

Read the full file on GitHub · 238 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. 7d ago First seen · 238 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A 4d3ed2864cce

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bio-copy-number-cnvkit-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,199 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 4,170 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.

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