Biostrings

Biostrings is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LeoLin990405/r-analytics-skill. It costs 24 tokens per session (519 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An R package for working with DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. R is a programming language often used for statistics and biological data analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reading and writing FASTA files, finding sequence patterns, reverse-complementing DNA, translating DNA into amino acids, aligning sequences, and calculating sequence statistics.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to read, change, compare, search, and measure biological sequences in R.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Reading and writing FASTA files, finding sequence patterns, reverse-complementing DNA, translating DNA into amino acids, aligning sequences, and calculating sequence statistics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leolin990405/r-analytics-skill/biostrings
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 LeoLin990405/r-analytics-skill --skill biostrings
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LeoLin990405/r-analytics-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 519 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 $0.00024 $0.00519
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00260
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00052

Measured 9d ago against content hash ee1c7fc88c4b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Biostrings 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 9d ago.

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.

sub-skills/r-bio/r-bio-genomics/Biostrings/SKILL.md · 112 lines

What it actually says

Biostrings Package

Efficient manipulation of biological sequences.

Create Sequences

library(Biostrings)

# DNA
dna <- DNAString("ATGCGATCGATCG")
dna_set <- DNAStringSet(c("ATGC", "GCTA", "TTAA"))

# RNA
rna <- RNAString("AUGCGAUCGAUCG")

# Amino acids
aa <- AAString("MKTAYIAKQRQISFVKSHFSRQLEERLGLIEVQAPILSRVGDGTQDNLSGAEKAVQVKVKALPDAQFEVVHSLAKWKRQQIAAALEHHHHHH")

Read FASTA

# Read
seqs <- readDNAStringSet("sequences.fasta")
seqs <- readAAStringSet("proteins.fasta")

# Write
writeXStringSet(seqs, "output.fasta")

Basic Operations

# Length
length(dna)
width(dna_set)

# Subset
subseq(dna, start = 1, end = 10)
dna[1:10]

# Reverse complement
reverseComplement(dna)

# Translate
translate(dna)

Pattern Matching

# Find pattern
matchPattern("ATG", dna)

# Count
countPattern("ATG", dna)

# Multiple patterns
vmatchPattern("ATG", dna_set)

# With mismatches
matchPattern("ATG", dna, max.mismatch = 1)

Alignment

# Pairwise alignment
pairwiseAlignment(pattern, subject,
  type = "global",
  substitutionMatrix = "BLOSUM62"
)

# Score
score(alignment)

# Aligned sequences
aligned(alignment)

Sequence Statistics

# Letter frequency
letterFrequency(dna, letters = c("A", "T", "G", "C"))

# Dinucleotide frequency
dinucleotideFrequency(dna)

# GC content
letterFrequency(dna, "GC", as.prob = TRUE)

# Oligonucleotide frequency
oligonucleotideFrequency(dna, width = 3)

Consensus

# Consensus matrix
consensusMatrix(dna_set)

# Consensus string
consensusString(dna_set)
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. 9d ago First seen · 112 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A ee1c7fc88c4b

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Biostrings is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeoLin990405/r-analytics-skill (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 519 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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