bio-atac-seq-differential-accessibility

bio-atac-seq-differential-accessibility is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 94 tokens per session (5,824 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for finding DNA regions whose accessibility differs between experimental conditions. ATAC-seq measures how open DNA is, so these regions can indicate changes in gene regulation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare treatment groups, cell types, or other conditions, then identify regions with statistically significant increases or decreases in accessibility.
Why use it?
It provides count-based statistical comparisons while accounting for differences in sequencing depth and other sources of variation. It supports both predefined peak regions and fixed-width sliding windows across the genome.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gptomics/bioskills/differential-accessibility
Any agent
npx skills add GPTomics/bioSkills --skill differential-accessibility
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GPTomics/bioSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,824 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00094 $0.05824
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.02912
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.01165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00582

Measured 5d ago against content hash c5074c087380, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-atac-seq-differential-accessibility 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 5d 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:

atac-seq/differential-accessibility/SKILL.md · 350 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 350 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: DiffBind 3.12+, DESeq2 1.42+, edgeR 4.0+, csaw 1.36+, limma 3.58+, GenomicRanges 1.54+, ChIPseeker 1.38+, Subread 2.0+ (featureCounts), sva 3.50+, RUVSeq 1.36+.

Before using code patterns, verify installed versions match:

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

If code throws unexpected errors, introspect the installed package and adapt rather than retrying.

Differential Accessibility

"Find chromatin regions that change accessibility between my conditions" -> Build a sample-by-region count matrix, normalize for library size and chromatin compaction, fit a generalized linear model (negative-binomial), and extract regions with significant accessibility change.

  • R (consensus-peak workflow): DiffBind -> count -> normalize -> contrast -> analyze
  • R (window-based, no peak set): csaw::windowCounts + filterWindowsGlobal + edgeR QL F-test
  • R (existing peak-count matrix): DESeq2 or edgeR directly on featureCounts output

DiffBind is a wrapper around DESeq2 / edgeR with ATAC-aware defaults. csaw is the only peak-free option; it tests fixed-width sliding windows. The choice depends on whether peaks are stable across conditions (use DiffBind) or whether some condition has dramatically different peak structure (use csaw or rebuild consensus peaks).

Algorithmic Taxonomy

Tool Model Input Min reps Strength Fails when
DiffBind 3.x (default DESeq2) NB GLM via DESeq2 on consensus peaks BAM + peak files 2-3 per group ATAC-aware defaults; built-in QC; blocking factors. Default in 3.x is normalize=DBA_NORM_LIB with library=DBA_LIBSIZE_FULL (full library size, background-included) Peaks differ dramatically between conditions (closed -> open shifts width); fewer than 2 reps per group
DiffBind with edgeR backend NB GLM via edgeR-QL on consensus peaks Same 2-3 per group Robust at low replicates (n=2 OK); QL test calibrates dispersion better than DESeq2 at small n When global accessibility shifts dominate, switch to spike-in or full-library (library=DBA_LIBSIZE_FULL), never reads-in-peaks
DESeq2 directly on peak counts NB GLM with shrinkage featureCounts SAF 3+ Maximum control; integrates with apeglm shrinkage; modern interface Need to manually build consensus peakset; per-region pre-filter required (low counts inflate dispersion)
edgeR QL F-test on peak counts NB QL (quasi-likelihood) featureCounts 2 Calibrated FDR at low n (n=2 viable); robust to outlier reps Manual consensus peakset; small library bias unless normalization explicit
csaw (windows) edgeR-QL on sliding windows BAM only 2 No peak set required; detects diffuse changes peaks miss; merges adjacent windows Computationally heavy; window size choice biases results; harder to annotate downstream
limma-voom linear model with mean-variance trend log2(CPM+offset) 3 Fast; good calibration at moderate count Mis-calibrated at very low counts (atac peaks often have dropouts); needs explicit voom normalization

Read the full file on GitHub · 350 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. 5d ago First seen · 350 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A c5074c087380

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bio-atac-seq-differential-accessibility is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,199 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 5,824 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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