bio-differential-expression-de-visualization

bio-differential-expression-de-visualization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 171 tokens per session (5,397 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to making standard plots for differential-expression analysis, which compares gene activity between conditions. It covers diagnostic plots such as PCA and sample-distance heatmaps, plus result plots such as MA plots, volcano plots, and gene heatmaps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and interpret PCA plots, heatmaps, MA plots, volcano plots, p-value histograms, and per-gene count plots.
Why use it?
It helps reveal sample problems and interpret statistical results without confusing model diagnostics with evidence of gene changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create and interpret PCA plots, heatmaps, MA plots, volcano plots, p-value histograms, and per-gene count plots.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 171 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,397 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 $0.00171 $0.05397
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.02698
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.01079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00540

Measured 8d ago against content hash a9b7be1033ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-differential-expression-de-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 8d ago.

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:

differential-expression/de-visualization/SKILL.md · 356 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 356 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: DESeq2 1.42+, edgeR 4.0+, limma 3.58+, ggplot2 3.5+, pheatmap 1.0+, RColorBrewer 1.1+, ggrepel 0.9+, EnhancedVolcano 1.20+, matrixStats 1.2+

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

  • R: packageVersion('<pkg>') then ?function_name to verify parameters

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

DE Visualization

"Make the standard DE figure panel" -> Use built-in functions or thin wrappers to produce diagnostic plots (dispersion, p-value histogram, PCA, sample distance) and result plots (MA, volcano, heatmap of top DE genes, per-gene counts), interpreted as diagnostics of the underlying model.

Scope

This skill covers DE-specific built-in plots and immediate wrappers. For richer customization:

  • Custom volcano/MA with apeglm-shrunken LFC and ggrepel labelling -> data-visualization/volcano-and-ma-plots
  • PCA / UMAP / t-SNE customization -> data-visualization/dimensionality-reduction-plots
  • Heatmap customization and ComplexHeatmap recipes -> data-visualization/heatmaps-clustering

The Single Most Important Modern Insight -- A volcano with shrunken LFC compresses the cloud, but the p-values are unchanged

lfcShrink() pulls noisy estimates toward zero. On the volcano, that pulls genes horizontally toward the center. But the y-axis (-log10(pvalue)) is the unshrunken Wald p-value -- shrinkage does NOT recompute p-values (Zhu, Ibrahim, Love 2019 Bioinformatics 35:2084). A naive reader sees fewer extreme dots and concludes "fewer genes are significant". Wrong: the same genes are significant; the effect sizes are smaller and more honest.

Always label the volcano x-axis "shrunken log2 fold change (apeglm)" and note the y-axis comes from the unshrunken Wald test. The whole point of the apeglm volcano is the honest effect-size axis; if a publication shows an unshrunken volcano, it is showing inflated effects from low-count noise.

Read the full file on GitHub · 356 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 · 356 lines · 171 tokens per session scan A a9b7be1033ef

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bio-differential-expression-de-visualization is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,201 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 171 tokens to every session and 5,397 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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