bio-crispr-screens-screen-qc

bio-crispr-screens-screen-qc is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 173 tokens per session (6,433 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to checking the quality of pooled CRISPR screens before identifying gene hits. It examines library coverage, replicate agreement, sequencing depth, technical drift, and biological signal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit CRISPR-screen count data with metrics such as Gini index, correlation, PCA, and precision-recall performance.
Why use it?
It helps reveal whether a screen is trustworthy, can be rescued, or should be repeated before time is spent interpreting hits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to audit CRISPR-screen count data with metrics such as Gini index, correlation, PCA, and precision-recall performance.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 173 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,433 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 $0.00173 $0.06433
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.03216
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.01287
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00643

Measured 7d ago against content hash 69bd4fbbdb93, 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-screen-qc 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/screen_qc.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/screen-qc/SKILL.md · 363 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 363 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+ (count + VISPR), MAGeCKFlute 2.0+ (R), pandas 2.2+, numpy 1.26+, scikit-learn 1.4+, matplotlib 3.8+, seaborn 0.13+.

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

  • CLI: mageck --version then mageck count --help; R: packageVersion('MAGeCKFlute')
  • R: packageVersion('MAGeCKFlute') then ?BatchRemove / ?FluteRRA

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

CRISPR Screen Quality Control

"Audit my CRISPR screen quality before hit calling" -> Assess library representation, replicate concordance, depth, drift, and biological signal recovery using DepMap-grade metrics, then decide whether the screen is usable, salvageable, or must be repeated.

  • Python: pandas + scikit-learn for Gini, AUC, PCA; MAGeCKFlute (R) for one-shot QC dashboard
  • CLI: mageck count writes Gini and mapping stats unconditionally to <prefix>.countsummary.txt (GiniIndex, Reads, Mapped, Percentage); MAGeCK-VISPR for an interactive dashboard

QC Stage Hierarchy

A pooled screen has six distinct bottlenecks where complexity can collapse. Audit each:

Stage Metric Acceptable threshold Failure consequence
Plasmid pool Gini, skew, % zero-count guides Gini <0.1, skew <2 (Joung 2017 states <10), zero <0.5% Missing guides cannot be screened; dropout indistinguishable from non-coverage
Day-0 infection Library coverage, MOI verification ≥99% guide detection at 500x cells/sgRNA; MOI 0.3 Founder effects; polyclonality with high MOI
Selection (puro/blast) % cells surviving, time-course Gini 30-40% survival at 5-7 days; Gini drift <0.05 Selection artifact; fast-growers enriched
Endpoint Replicate correlation, depth Pearson >=0.8 on log-counts (MAGeCK-VISPR floor), Spearman >0.7-0.8, >500 reads/sgRNA (Joung 2017 screening) Noise dominates; FDR inflates
Biological signal CEGv2 PR-AUC, NEGv1 false-positive rate PR-AUC >0.7 at FDR 5% (community "passing" convention); CEGv2 enrichment in top 1k Screen lacks essentiality signal; hits not credible
Copy-number artifact Amplified-region enrichment, sgRNA-cut-count correlation No correlation between sgRNA off-target count and depletion False-positive essentiality at amplicons; ERBB2 in HER2+ etc.

Read the full file on GitHub · 363 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 · 363 lines · 173 tokens per session scan A 69bd4fbbdb93

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bio-crispr-screens-screen-qc is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,201 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 173 tokens to every session and 6,433 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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