bio-chipseq-peak-annotation

bio-chipseq-peak-annotation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 179 tokens per session (4,896 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for explaining what ChIP-seq peaks correspond to in the genome, such as promoters, exons, introns, enhancers, or nearby genes. ChIP-seq measures where a DNA-bound protein or histone mark is found.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to annotate peaks with genomic features, assign nearby or host genes, compare them with ENCODE regulatory elements, and run gene-set enrichment analysis.
Why use it?
It helps connect raw binding regions to genes and regulatory elements without assuming that the nearest gene is always the affected one.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to annotate peaks with genomic features, assign nearby or host genes, compare them with ENCODE regulatory elements, and run gene-set enrichment analysis.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 179 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,896 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 $0.00179 $0.04896
Opus 5 $0.00089 $0.02448
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00979
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00490

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8ccd95dd8422, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-chipseq-peak-annotation 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (examples/annotate_peaks.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

wget https://downloads.wenglab.org/Registry-V4/GRCh38-cCREs.bed
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

chip-seq/peak-annotation/SKILL.md · 346 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 346 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: ChIPseeker 1.38+, GenomicFeatures 1.54+, rtracklayer 1.62+, HOMER 4.11+, rGREAT 2.4+, chipenrich 2.26+, pyranges 0.0.129+, pandas 2.2+.

ENCODE cCRE registry expanded to 2.37M human and 967k mouse elements (Moore JE et al 2026 Nature). SCREEN web app at screen.encodeproject.org provides browser access; ENCODE provides bed files for batch annotation.

Peak Annotation

"What genes and regulatory elements do my peaks correspond to?" -> Assign each peak to a genomic feature (promoter, exon, intron, intergenic), its target gene (via nearest-TSS or host-gene), and where applicable an ENCODE cCRE class (PLS/pELS/dELS/CA-CTCF/CA-H3K4me3).

  • R (gene-feature): ChIPseeker::annotatePeak(peaks, TxDb=txdb)
  • CLI (gene-feature): annotatePeaks.pl peaks.bed hg38 -gtf annotation.gtf
  • Python (custom): pyranges + pandas
  • R (cCRE classification): intersect peaks with ENCODE cCRE BED from SCREEN
  • R (gene-set enrichment): rGREAT::great() or chipenrich::chipenrich()

The single biggest source of misinterpretation is the nearest-TSS vs host-gene distinction (see below). For enhancer-driven biology, ENCODE-rE2G or ABC (in atac-seq/enhancer-gene-linking) is more accurate than nearest-TSS.

Choosing an Annotation Approach

Context Recommended Why
Standard genome, pre-built annotations available ChIPseeker with TxDb package Simplest; automatic gene symbol mapping via annoDb
Custom or project-specific GTF ChIPseeker + makeTxDbFromGFF, HOMER -gtf, or pyranges All three handle custom annotations
HOMER already in pipeline HOMER annotatePeaks.pl Reuses tag directory; combined with motif workflow
Fine-grained control pyranges (Python) Full control over priority rules, distance calculation
Enhancer peaks (distal regulatory) GREAT / rGREAT Regulatory domain assignment (basal + extension), not just nearest
Cell-type-specific enhancer-gene linking ENCODE-rE2G Modern (2024); ABC-trained logistic regression with chromatin context
Gene-set enrichment with locus-length adjustment chipenrich / Broad-Enrich Corrects for systematic gene-length bias in peak assignment
Compare against ENCODE cCRE atlas SCREEN cCRE BED intersect Cross-reference standard regulatory registry
Promoter-coverage decomposition bedtools intersect with TSS windows Quick stats per peak set

Read the full file on GitHub · 346 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 6d ago First seen · 346 lines · 179 tokens per session scan A 8ccd95dd8422

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bio-chipseq-peak-annotation is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,199 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 179 tokens to every session and 4,896 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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