a set of SKILLS.md for doing bioinformatics with agents like claude code
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Batch effect correction for CRISPR screens covering ComBat empirical-Bayes, RUV, SVA, control-sgRNA normalization, and the model-based alternative of including batch as a covariate in MAGeCK MLE or Chronos. Covers screen-specific batch sources (passage cohort, library lot, infection day, sequencing run, Cas9 lot, FBS…
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Designs and analyzes combinatorial CRISPR screens covering paired-Cas9 (Big Papi, Najm 2018), enhanced AsCas12a multiplex (enCas12a, DeWeirdt 2021), in4mer 4-guide-array Cas12a (Esmaeili Anvar N et al 2024 Nat Commun 15:3577) and the Inzolia paralog-pair library, paralog-buffering detection (Dede 2020 Genome Biol…
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Corrects the gene-independent copy-number artifact in CRISPR-Cas9 screens (Aguirre 2016 / Munoz 2016 Cancer Discov) where amplified loci appear essential from DNA-damage burden of simultaneous cuts. Covers the gene-independent DNA-damage / G2-arrest mechanism, CRISPRcleanR (Iorio 2018) unsupervised pre-hoc correction…
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Quantifies CRISPR editing outcomes with CRISPResso2 (Clement 2019 Nat Biotechnol) across Cas9-nuclease (indels, HDR), CBE and ABE base editors (target conversion + bystander), and prime editor (pegRNA-templated) modes. Covers single-amplicon (CRISPResso), multi-sample batch (CRISPRessoBatch), pooled-amplicon…
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Analyzes CRISPR drug-modifier (chemogenomic) screens with drugZ (Colic et al. 2019 Genome Med), a bidirectional Z-score method that identifies synthetic-lethal sensitizing genes and resistance-conferring suppressor genes from vehicle vs drug comparisons. Covers vehicle-anchored design (not Day-0), the bidirectional Z…
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Cross-method decision tree for calling hits in pooled CRISPR screens. Catalogs statistical models (MAGeCK RRA, MAGeCK MLE, BAGEL2, drugZ, JACKS, Chronos, CERES), experimental designs each is built for, failure modes outside design domain, reconciliation when methods disagree, multiple-testing and effect-size…
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Designs and analyzes in vivo CRISPR screens in animal tumor models, organoids, and immune-cell adoptive transfers. Covers bottleneck math (250x cells/sgRNA requires 25M cells implanted; impossible for most syngeneic models, forcing focused libraries), focused library design (Manguso 2017 Nature 547:413 immune screen…
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Runs JACKS (Joint Analysis of CRISPR/Cas9 Knockout Screens; Allen et al 2019 Genome Research) which models per-sgRNA log-fold-change as the product of a treatment-dependent gene-essentiality term and a treatment-independent guide-efficacy term. Covers the Bayesian decomposition math, the hierarchical efficacy prior…
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Designs pooled sgRNA libraries for CRISPR knockout, interference (CRISPRi), activation (CRISPRa), Cas12a multiplex, base-editor, and prime-editor screens. Covers on-target scoring (Rule Set 2, Azimuth, DeepSpCas9, CRISPRon), off-target scoring (CFD, MIT), TSS-relative positioning for CRISPRi/a (Horlbeck, Dolcetto…
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Analyzes pooled CRISPR screens with MAGeCK (Li et al 2014), covering count generation (mageck count), the RRA two-condition workflow (mageck test using alpha-RRA over per-sgRNA negative-binomial p-values), the MLE multi-condition workflow (mageck mle with explicit design matrix and beta-score output), normalization…
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Analyzes single-cell pooled CRISPR screens (Perturb-seq, CROP-seq, Perturb-CITE-seq, ECCITE-seq, multiome) where each cell carries an sgRNA and a scRNA-seq / surface-protein / chromatin readout. Covers experimental design (direct-capture Perturb-seq Dixit 2016 vs CROP-seq 3'UTR-barcoded Datlinger 2017 vs ECCITE-seq vs…
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Designs and analyzes pooled prime-editor (PE) screens for installing precise genetic variants without bystander confounding. Covers pegRNA design with PRIDICT and PRIDICT2 for predicting per-pegRNA editing efficiency, pegRNA architecture (spacer + scaffold + PBS + RTT), PE2/PE3/PE3b/PEmax variants, MOSAIC in situ…
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Quality control for pooled CRISPR screens covering library representation, Gini index, log-skew, replicate Pearson and Spearman concordance, essentialome precision-recall AUC against CEGv2 (Hart 2017), Cas9 cut-toxicity diagnostics, copy-number amplicon detection (Aguirre 2016 / Munoz 2016), bottleneck propagation…
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Build circular genome visualizations using circlize (R), pyCirclize (Python), or Circos (Perl CLI) with ideogram tracks, multi-data tracks (scatter, histogram, heatmap), chord/link arcs for interactions, and explicit circos.clear() between plots. Covers when circular is appropriate vs when Cartesian wins…
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Select colormaps and qualitative palettes for scientific figures using perceptual-uniformity, color-vision-deficiency safety, and luminance-monotonicity criteria. Covers Crameri scientific colormaps, viridis/cividis/magma, Okabe-Ito categorical, ColorBrewer, and the rainbow/jet critique. Use when choosing palettes for…
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Produce and interpret PCA, t-SNE, UMAP, and PHATE plots for high-dimensional omics data with rigor about which method preserves what (variance, local structure, manifold, transitions), hyperparameter sensitivity, and the well-documented limits of 2D embeddings. Covers PCA biplot/scree/loadings, t-SNE PCA…
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Plot per-group distributions of continuous data using boxplots, violins, beeswarms, quasirandom jitter, and raincloud plots with sample-size honesty (Weissgerber 2015), KDE-bandwidth awareness, and N-aware encoding choices. Use when comparing distributions across a small number of groups — expression per cluster…
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Build Sankey, alluvial, river, and CONSORT-style flow diagrams to visualize cohort transitions, cell-state changes, or pipeline filtering using ggalluvial, networkD3, plotly, and consort. Use when showing how entities move between categories across timepoints (cell states, drug response classes, patient flow through a…
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Build forest plots (HR, OR, RR, beta-coefficient summaries with CIs) and funnel plots (meta-analysis publication-bias diagnostics) using forestplot, metafor, ggforest, and MendelianRandomization with proper axis-scaling, summary-diamond placement, subgroup nesting, and Egger / trim-and-fill asymmetry tests. Use when…
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Build genome-browser-style multi-track figures with pyGenomeTracks (config-driven), Gviz (R), and IGV batch screenshotting. Covers BigWig coverage tracks, BED/peak overlays, gene-model rendering, Hi-C matrix tracks, BedPE link arcs, spike-in-aware normalization, and the bamCoverage --normalizeUsing trap. Use when…
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Build publication-quality figures in R with ggplot2 using the grammar of graphics (data + aesthetics + geometries + scales + facets + themes) with CVD-safe palettes, cairopdf TrueType embedding, programmatic aes via tidy evaluation, and the themeclassic publication baseline. Use when producing static figures in R for…
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Build clustered heatmaps for expression matrices and other features-by-samples data with rigorous distance/linkage/scaling choices, robust color mapping, optimal leaf ordering, and ComplexHeatmap/pheatmap/seaborn rendering. Covers the ward.D vs ward.D2 trap, the row-vs-column scaling decision, multi-track annotations…
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Build interactive HTML/web visualizations with plotly (Python/R), bokeh (Python), and gganimate/plotly frames for animation, with awareness of current Kaleido static-export model (post-orca-EOL), HTML file-size bloat, and the limits of interactive-only output for journal submission. Use when producing…
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Plot per-gene mutation distributions on a protein-domain map (lollipop / needle plots) showing mutation position, recurrence count, and variant classification with maftools, g3-lollipop, trackViewer, and ProteinPaint. Use when visualizing recurrent mutation hotspots on a single gene's protein, marking domain…
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