bio-copy-number-recurrent-cnv

bio-copy-number-recurrent-cnv is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 138 tokens per session (2,970 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for finding copy-number changes that recur across many tumors and identifying likely driver regions. Copy-number changes are gains or losses of DNA segments; a driver is an alteration that helps cancer develop or grow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze tumor cohorts with GISTIC2, identify recurrent focal or arm-level alterations, and quantify copy-number signatures with COSMIC or CINSignatures methods.
Why use it?
A change seen in one tumor may be random, while a change recurring across a cohort may indicate selection. This separates broad chromosome changes from focal events and scores recurrence against background rates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to analyze tumor cohorts with GISTIC2, identify recurrent focal or arm-level alterations, and quantify copy-number signatures with COSMIC or CINSignatures methods.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 138 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,970 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 $0.00138 $0.02970
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.01485
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00594
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00297

Measured 7d ago against content hash cc81804c4e86, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-copy-number-recurrent-cnv 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/run_gistic2.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:

copy-number/recurrent-cnv/SKILL.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: GISTIC 2.0.23, R 4.3+ with CINSignatureQuantification 1.2+; Python 3.10+ with SigProfilerAssignment 0.1+ (optional, COSMIC CN signatures).

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

  • CLI: gistic2 --help (GISTIC 2.0 is a MATLAB-compiled binary; needs the MCR runtime)
  • R: packageVersion('CINSignatureQuantification')
  • Python: pip show SigProfilerAssignment

GISTIC 2.0 has had no substantive release since ~2017; it is effectively frozen. It runs as a compiled binary against the MATLAB Compiler Runtime — there is no R or Python package. Verify the reference (-refgene) .mat file matches the genome build.

Recurrent and Driver Copy Number Alteration

"Which copy number changes recur across my cohort, and which gene is the driver" -> A CNV in one tumor is an observation; a CNV recurring across many tumors beyond chance is evidence of selection. GISTIC2 separates recurrent driver events from passengers by modeling a background rate and scoring each locus by how often, and how strongly, it is altered. Copy-number signatures decompose the genome-wide pattern of alterations into the mutational processes that generated them.

  • CLI: gistic2 — cohort-level recurrence, focal vs broad, driver localization
  • R: CINSignatureQuantification (Drews 2022); Python SigProfilerAssignment (Steele 2022 COSMIC)

How GISTIC2 Works — and Its Limits

GISTIC2 scores each genomic marker with a G-score = frequency of alteration x mean amplitude, separately for amplifications and deletions. Significance (q-value) comes from permuting events along the genome under the null that all are passengers. Ziggurat deconstruction decomposes each sample's profile into the additive arm-level and focal events that produced it, so the background rate is estimated separately for broad and focal alterations — without this, ubiquitous arm-level events swamp the focal signal. A peel-off procedure removes the contribution of each significant peak before testing the next, so one strong driver does not mask its neighbors.

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 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 · 185 lines · 138 tokens per session scan A cc81804c4e86

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bio-copy-number-recurrent-cnv is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,201 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 138 tokens to every session and 2,970 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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