bio-crispr-screens-mageck-analysis

bio-crispr-screens-mageck-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 223 tokens per session (6,193 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for analyzing pooled CRISPR screens, where many gene-targeting guides are tested together, using MAGeCK. It counts guides from sequencing data and ranks genes that become more or less common under different conditions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze two-condition or multi-condition pooled CRISPR screens, normalize samples, identify enriched or depleted genes, and create follow-up visualizations and pathway analyses.
Why use it?
It turns raw guide counts into statistical results and helps account for whether the experiment compares two conditions or several conditions over time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to analyze two-condition or multi-condition pooled CRISPR screens, normalize samples, identify enriched or depleted genes, and create follow-up visualizations and pathway analyses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gptomics/bioskills/mageck-analysis
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add GPTomics/bioSkills --skill mageck-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GPTomics/bioSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 223 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,193 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 $0.00223 $0.06193
Opus 5 $0.00112 $0.03096
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.01239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00619

Measured 7d ago against content hash b054d0e0892f, 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-mageck-analysis 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/mageck_workflow.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.

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/mageck-analysis/SKILL.md · 383 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 383 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+, MAGeCKFlute 2.0+ (R/Bioconductor), MAGeCK-VISPR 0.5.6+, pandas 2.2+, numpy 1.26+, matplotlib 3.8+.

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

  • CLI: mageck --version, mageck count --help, mageck test --help, mageck mle --help
  • R: packageVersion('MAGeCKFlute'), ?FluteRRA, ?FluteMLE

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

MAGeCK CRISPR Screen Analysis

"Run MAGeCK on my pooled CRISPR screen" -> Count sgRNAs from FASTQ, normalize across samples, and rank genes by enrichment or depletion using either the robust rank aggregation (RRA) test for two-condition designs or the maximum-likelihood (MLE) model with explicit design matrix for multi-condition / time-course / drug screens.

  • CLI: mageck count -> mageck test for two-condition RRA
  • CLI: mageck mle for multi-condition / time-course / multi-cell-line MLE
  • R: MAGeCKFlute::FluteRRA() / FluteMLE() for downstream visualization and pathway analysis
  • Python: mageck-vispr for interactive QC + result dashboard

RRA vs MLE Decision Tree

Experimental design Recommended Why
Two conditions (e.g. drug vs vehicle, treated vs untreated), single cell line, no covariates mageck test (RRA) RRA is more robust to outlier sgRNAs; faster; default for most published screens
Time series (Day 0 -> Day 7 -> Day 14 -> Day 21) mageck mle RRA cannot model multiple timepoints jointly; MLE estimates per-condition beta scores
Multi-cell-line panel (e.g. DepMap-style 5-50 lines) mageck mle with cell-line covariate, or Chronos MLE handles >2 conditions; Chronos preferred at DepMap scale
Paired samples (each replicate matched donor/cell prep) mageck mle with paired design RRA does not support pairing
Combinatorial (treatment x cell line x time) mageck mle with full factorial design RRA only handles 1 factor
Drug screen (vehicle vs drug, multiple doses) mageck mle with dose covariate OR drugZ (preferred for chemogenomic) drugZ optimized for chemogenomic; see [[drugz-chemogenomic]]
Essentiality (Day 0 -> endpoint, single condition) mageck test for simple dropout; mageck mle if multi-cell-line RRA suffices; or BAGEL2 for Bayesian essentiality; see [[bagel-essentiality]]
Multi-batch / multi-screen joint analysis mageck mle with batch covariate, JACKS for guide efficacy, or Chronos See [[batch-correction]]

Read the full file on GitHub · 383 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 · 383 lines · 223 tokens per session scan A b054d0e0892f

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bio-crispr-screens-mageck-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,201 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 223 tokens to every session and 6,193 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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