bio-crispr-screens-hit-calling

bio-crispr-screens-hit-calling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 176 tokens per session (5,100 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing statistical methods that identify significant genes in pooled CRISPR screens. It matches methods such as MAGeCK, BAGEL2, drugZ, JACKS, Chronos, and CERES to the experiment's design and question.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select a hit-calling method, understand its failure cases, compare results between methods, and account for multiple testing and effect size.
Why use it?
Different methods make different assumptions, so choosing one that does not fit the experiment can produce misleading hits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to select a hit-calling method, understand its failure cases, compare results between methods, and account for multiple testing and effect size.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 176 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,100 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 $0.00176 $0.05100
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.02550
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.01020
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00510

Measured 7d ago against content hash c368782f6f61, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-crispr-screens-hit-calling 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/consensus_hits.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/hit-calling/SKILL.md · 293 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 293 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+, BAGEL2 2.0, drugZ Aug 2019+, JACKS 0.2.0+, Chronos 2.0+ (DepMap), CERES 1.0+, pandas 2.2+, numpy 1.26+, scipy 1.12+, statsmodels 0.14+.

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

  • CLI: mageck --version, BAGEL.py version, python drugz.py --help
  • Python: pip show crispr_chronos (JACKS installs from GitHub, not PyPI)

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

Hit Calling Decision Tree

"Identify significant hits in my CRISPR screen" -> Choose the analysis method that matches the experimental design, statistical assumptions, and quality grade of the screen. Reconcile across methods when high-stakes hits must be validated.

The primary hit-calling methods cover non-overlapping niches; the decision is not "which is best" but "which matches the design."

Design / question Primary method Why Secondary check
Two-condition essentiality, one cell line, no CN concerns MAGeCK RRA Robust, fast, gold-standard for ranked analysis BAGEL2 (Bayes factor on same data)
Time course (3+ timepoints) MAGeCK MLE RRA cannot model multi-condition JACKS (efficacy-aware)
Multi-cell-line panel (cancer dependency) Chronos Models CN bias + screen quality jointly MAGeCK MLE per line + meta-analysis
Drug screen (vehicle vs drug) drugZ Bidirectional Z; vehicle-anchored MAGeCK MLE with dose covariate
Multi-screen joint, same library JACKS Shared efficacy; enables ~2.5x smaller screens MAGeCK MLE; results should converge
Essentiality classification with reference sets BAGEL2 Bayes factor with CEGv2/NEGv1 calibration MAGeCK RRA
Combinatorial / paired guide MAGeCK MLE with GI scoring Models interaction term; see [[combinatorial-screens]] Custom GI scoring
Single-cell perturbation (Perturb-seq) SCEPTRE NB GLM + permutation; see [[perturb-seq-analysis]] Mixscape pre-filter
Cancer-line copy-number screen Chronos (preferred) or CERES Joint CN-bias + gene-effect modeling; see [[copy-number-correction]] CRISPRcleanR pre-hoc + MAGeCK

Read the full file on GitHub · 293 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 · 293 lines · 176 tokens per session scan A c368782f6f61

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bio-crispr-screens-hit-calling is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,201 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 176 tokens to every session and 5,100 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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