bio-comparative-genomics-gene-tree-species-tree-reconciliation

bio-comparative-genomics-gene-tree-species-tree-reconciliation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 190 tokens per session (8,362 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bioinformatics workflow for comparing gene family trees with a species tree to explain gene duplication, loss, and transfer. A species tree shows relationships between species; a gene tree shows relationships between gene copies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reconcile gene and species trees, test duplication-transfer-loss histories, and study genes affected by horizontal transfer.
Why use it?
It helps explain why gene histories differ from species histories instead of treating every difference as a simple mutation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to reconcile gene and species trees, test duplication-transfer-loss histories, and study genes affected by horizontal transfer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gptomics/bioskills/gene-tree-species-tree-reconciliation
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 gene-tree-species-tree-reconciliation
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 8,362 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.08362
Opus 5 $0.00095 $0.04181
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.01672
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00836

Measured 8d ago against content hash 599f0aee5c5f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-comparative-genomics-gene-tree-species-tree-reconciliation scanned grade A with 1 finding 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/ale_dtl_reconciliation.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

wget https://compbio.engr.uconn.edu/software/RANGER-DTL/RANGER-DTL-Linux.tar.gz
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

comparative-genomics/gene-tree-species-tree-reconciliation/SKILL.md · 493 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 493 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: ALE 1.0+ (ssolo/ALE github), GeneRax 2.1.3+ (BenoitMorel/GeneRax), AleRax 1.2.0+ (BenoitMorel/AleRax; Morel 2024 Bioinformatics 40:btae162), Whale.jl 2.0+ (arzwa/Whale.jl), RANGER-DTL 2.0+ (Bansal lab; Bansal 2018 Bioinformatics 34:3214), NOTUNG 2.9.1.5+ (Stolzer 2012; Chen 2000), ecceTERA 1.2.5+, Treerecs 1.2+, IQ-TREE 2.3.6+, MrBayes 3.2.7+, BUSCO 5.7+, ete4 4.1.0+, BioPython 1.84+. Open Tree of Life and NCBI Taxonomy reference databases at 2024-Q3 minimum for species-tree-aware inference.

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

  • CLI: ALEml_undated --help, ALEml --help (dated), generax --help, alerax --help
  • Julia: using Whale; Whale.WhaleProblem; ]status for package versions
  • Python: pip show ete4; ete4 --help

If code throws species tree mismatch, gene tree taxa not in species tree, or MPI process pool failure, these reconciliation tools share strict label-consistency requirements: species labels must match exactly across the species tree and gene trees (case-sensitive, no whitespace), and gene IDs typically encode species via prefix (species|gene_id separator convention). Use sed / awk normalization scripts before reconciliation.

Gene Tree Species Tree Reconciliation

"Where did this gene family come from, and what events shaped its history?" -> Reconcile gene trees against species trees under explicit probabilistic models of duplication (D), horizontal transfer (T), and loss (L). The reconciliation framework converts gene-tree-species-tree discordance into a quantitative history of evolutionary events. Modern probabilistic methods (ALE, GeneRax, AleRax) distinguish gene-tree-error-driven discordance from biological discordance by integrating over gene-tree uncertainty -- a critical advance over parsimony reconciliation (NOTUNG, RANGER) which treats input gene trees as fixed and inflates duplication/loss counts from gene-tree noise (Boussau 2013 Genome Res 23:323; Morel 2020 MBE 37:2763).

Read the full file on GitHub · 493 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 · 493 lines · 190 tokens per session scan A 599f0aee5c5f

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bio-comparative-genomics-gene-tree-species-tree-reconciliation is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,201 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 190 tokens to every session and 8,362 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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