a set of SKILLS.md for doing bioinformatics with agents like claude code
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Assesses RNA-seq data quality specifically for alternative splicing analysis. QC layers include experimental design audit (library prep, read length, depth, replicates), STAR 2-pass cohort-style alignment, junction saturation curves and discovery plateau detection, novel-vs-known junction ratio diagnostics…
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Quantifies alternative splicing as PSI (percent spliced in) from RNA-seq using rMATS-turbo (BAM-based event), SUPPA2 (TPM-based event), MAJIQ V3 (LSV-based Bayesian), leafcutter (annotation-free intron clusters), VAST-TOOLS (cross-species with microexon support), Shiba (junction-imbalance-corrected, 2025 SOTA at low…
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Detect allele-specific chromatin accessibility from ATAC-seq using WASP, GATK ASEReadCounter, or RASQUAL. Use when mapping cis-regulatory genetic variants from heterozygous SNPs, separating cis from trans regulation, building chromatin QTL (caQTL) maps, validating GWAS variant function with allelic imbalance, or…
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Call accessible chromatin regions from ATAC-seq BAM files using MACS3, MACS2, Genrich, or HMMRATAC. Use when identifying open chromatin from aligned ATAC-seq, choosing between point-source vs HMM peak callers, applying ENCODE-style pseudoreplicate IDR, removing blacklist regions, or fixing 501bp consensus peaks for…
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ATAC-seq library quality control -- TSS enrichment, FRiP, fragment-size periodicity, library complexity (NRF/PBC1/PBC2), mitochondrial fraction, and ENCODE 4 thresholds. Use when assessing whether an ATAC-seq library passes ENCODE acceptance criteria, diagnosing transposition artefacts, comparing Omni-ATAC vs standard…
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Infer cis-regulatory connections (peak-to-peak co-accessibility) from scATAC-seq using Cicero, ArchR getCoAccessibility, or SCENIC+. Use when linking enhancer accessibility to promoter accessibility, identifying enhancer-gene pairs from chromatin alone (without paired RNA), running gene-regulatory inference combining…
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Build a differential-ready consensus peakset from per-replicate ATAC-seq peaks using iterative overlap removal, fixed-width re-centering, and majority-rule overlap. Use when generating a stable peak coordinate system for downstream differential accessibility, ML feature engineering, cross-sample comparison, or…
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Sequence-based deep learning for ATAC-seq using chromBPNet, BPNet, scBasset, or Enformer. Use when correcting Tn5 bias with neural networks beyond k-mer models, predicting per-base accessibility profiles, scoring in silico variant effects at GWAS or rare-variant SNPs, discovering motifs via DeepLIFT/TF-MoDISco from a…
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Identify differentially accessible chromatin regions across conditions using DiffBind, csaw, DESeq2, or edgeR. Use when comparing ATAC-seq accessibility between treatment groups, choosing between consensus-peak vs sliding-window approaches, picking the correct normalization (full library vs reads-in-peaks), correcting…
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Predict enhancer-gene regulatory connections from ATAC-seq using ABC, ENCODE-rE2G, HiChIP, or Cicero. Use when linking distal enhancers to target genes, choosing between contact-aware (ABC, ENCODE-rE2G), accessibility-only (Cicero), and orthogonal (HiChIP H3K27ac, EpiMap) approaches, validating predictions against…
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Detect transcription factor binding footprints in ATAC-seq using TOBIAS, HINT-ATAC, Wellington, or scprinter. Use when identifying bound TF sites within accessible regions, correcting Tn5 insertion bias before footprinting, choosing between cleavage-based and aggregate-based footprinters, or comparing differential TF…
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Analyze TF motif accessibility variability across samples or single cells using chromVAR. Use when identifying TF motifs whose accessibility correlates with conditions, computing per-sample motif z-scores after matched background correction, comparing to ArchR / Signac equivalents, or distinguishing…
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Map nucleosome center positions, occupancy, and fuzziness from ATAC-seq fragment-size patterns using NucleoATAC, ATACseqQC, DANPOS3, or scprinter. Use when characterizing nucleosome organization at promoters and enhancers, calling +1/-1 nucleosomes flanking NFRs, generating V-plots for chromatin structure…
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Process and analyze single-cell ATAC-seq data with Signac, ArchR, SnapATAC2, or Cell Ranger ATAC. Use when handling 10X scATAC or 10X Multiome (paired RNA+ATAC) data, performing per-cell QC, choosing between ArchR/Signac/SnapATAC2 ecosystems, building per-cluster consensus peaksets, integrating with paired scRNA-seq…
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Test whether two or more traits share a causal variant at a locus using Bayesian colocalization (coloc.abf, coloc.susie, HyPrColoc, moloc, eCAVIAR, SMR/HEIDI, PWCoCo, SharePro). Use when integrating GWAS with eQTL/sQTL/pQTL/mQTL, distinguishing shared causal variants from LD-driven coincidence, handling allelic…
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Maps GWAS-implicated loci to candidate effector (causal) genes by integrating variant-to-gene (V2G) features via Open Targets L2G (Mountjoy 2021), MAGMA gene-based association (de Leeuw 2015), FUMA SNP2GENE, cS2G combined SNP-to-gene scores (Gazal 2022), Polygenic Priority Scores (PoPS, Weeks 2023), FLAMES, INQUISIT…
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Resolves GWAS associations to candidate causal variants and credible sets via SuSiE, susierss, FINEMAP, CAVIAR, DAP-G, PAINTOR, PolyFun, SuSiEx, MultiSuSiE, and FOCUS. Use when narrowing a GWAS lead SNP to a 95 percent credible set, choosing between in-sample and reference LD, calibrating non-sparse loci with…
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Estimates bivariate genetic correlation (rg) between traits from GWAS summary statistics or individual-level genotypes using cross-trait LDSC, HDL, LAVA, rho-HESS, GREML-bivariate, Popcorn, and HDL-L. Use when quantifying shared genetic architecture between two traits, screening MR validity before causal inference…
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Fits structural equation models to GWAS summary statistics using GenomicSEM (Grotzinger 2019), including common-factor models, confirmatory factor models, ESEM, common-factor GWAS with QSNP heterogeneity, multivariate Wald tests, and stratified GenomicSEM partitioned heritability. Reconciles results against MTAG…
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Estimates SNP heritability and partitions it across functional annotations, cell types, and loci from GWAS summary statistics or individual-level genotypes. Implements LDSC, stratified LDSC with the baseline-LD model, Finucane 2018 cell-type prioritization, LDAK SumHer, HDL, HESS local heritability, BOLT-REML…
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Decompose total effects into direct and indirect paths through mediators using mediation, CMAverse 4-way, HIMA/HIMA2 high-dimensional, BAMA, two-step / MVMR mediation, or double-ML medDML. Use when testing whether a molecular phenotype (expression, methylation, protein) mediates a treatment-outcome relationship…
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Estimate causal effects of an exposure on an outcome from GWAS summary statistics using genetic instruments. Implements IVW (fixed/random), MR-Egger, weighted median/mode, MR-RAPS, CAUSE, GSMR-HEIDI, MR-PRESSO, MVMR, MR-Clust, LCV, and LHC-MR via TwoSampleMR, MendelianRandomization, MR-PRESSO, cause, and lhcMR. Use…
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Detect and adjust for horizontal pleiotropy in two-sample Mendelian randomization by distinguishing uncorrelated (UHP) from correlated (CHP) pleiotropy and choosing among Egger, MR-PRESSO, MR-RAPS, CAUSE, LHC-MR, LCV, MR-Clust, MR-Mix, and contamination-mixture methods. Use when validating an MR causal claim, running…
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Runs cis-pQTL Mendelian randomization for drug-target validation using UKB-PPP (Olink), deCODE (SomaScan), Fenland, INTERVAL, ARIC, and FinnGen-PPP proteomes plus colocalization triangulation, phenome-wide on-target adverse-effect scans, cross-platform Olink/SomaScan replication, and PAV (protein-altering variant)…
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