bio-crispr-screens-combinatorial-screens

bio-crispr-screens-combinatorial-screens is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 252 tokens per session (4,575 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for designing and analyzing combinatorial CRISPR screens, where two or more genes are targeted together. It measures whether the combined knockout has a different effect from the two individual knockouts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design paired or multiplex guide libraries, score genetic interactions, and find synthetic-lethal or synthetic-rescue gene pairs with MAGeCK or custom Cas12a analysis.
Why use it?
Testing genes one at a time can miss interactions such as synthetic lethality, where the combination harms cells more than either change alone. This helps identify such interactions and possible rescue effects.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to design paired or multiplex guide libraries, score genetic interactions, and find synthetic-lethal or synthetic-rescue gene pairs with MAGeCK or custom Cas12a analysis.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 252 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,575 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 $0.00252 $0.04575
Opus 5 $0.00126 $0.02287
Sonnet 5 $0.00050 $0.00915
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00458

Measured 8d ago against content hash d856b3b0e048, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-crispr-screens-combinatorial-screens 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (examples/gi_scoring.py), 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:

crispr-screens/combinatorial-screens/SKILL.md · 265 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 265 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: MAGeCK 0.5.9+ (for MLE with interaction terms), Inzolia library annotation (Esmaeili Anvar 2024), pandas 2.2+, numpy 1.26+, scipy 1.12+, matplotlib 3.8+.

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

  • CLI: mageck --version; mageck mle --help
  • For Cas12a libraries: verify against published Inzolia / in4mer / Big Papi annotations

If code throws ImportError, AttributeError, or TypeError, introspect the installed package and adapt the example to match the actual API rather than retrying.

Combinatorial CRISPR Screen Analysis

"Run a combinatorial CRISPR screen to find synthetic-lethal interactions" -> Design a paired or multiplex library, screen for double-knockout fitness, score per-pair genetic interaction (GI = observed_double - expected_additive), and identify synthetic-lethal (negative GI) and synthetic-rescue (positive GI) interactions.

  • CLI: mageck mle with explicit interaction terms for paired-Cas9 (Big Papi-style)
  • Python: custom GI scoring for Cas12a multiplex (in4mer / Inzolia)
  • Modality: enCas12a / LbCas12a single-array multiplex (preferred for paralog screens)

Combinatorial Architecture Decision Tree

Goal Architecture Library Why
Paralog buffering, identify synthetic lethal paralog pairs enCas12a single-array 4-guide multiplex Inzolia (Esmaeili Anvar 2024) Cas9 single-KO misses paralog-buffered essentials (42% of constitutively expressed genes never score, Dede 2020)
Test specific pathway pair (e.g., DNA repair branches) Big Papi (orthologous SaCas9 + SpCas9; two sgRNAs from U6 and H1 in pPapi) Custom Mature methodology; orthologous enzymes avoid repeated-element recombination
Combinatorial 3-way / 4-way knockout in4mer (4-guide single Cas12a array) Custom (in4mer) Single transcript processed by Cas12a; multi-gene
Single-cell Perturb-seq with multi-pert per cell Combinatorial Perturb-seq + Cas9 multiplex Custom Single-cell readout of multi-perturbation effects
Drug-modifier + KO interaction Cas9 KO + drug treatment Standard libraries Drug as second "perturbation"

Read the full file on GitHub · 265 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. 8d ago First seen · 265 lines · 252 tokens per session scan A d856b3b0e048

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bio-crispr-screens-combinatorial-screens is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,201 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 252 tokens to every session and 4,575 once invoked, about $0.0013 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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