A curated, multilingual library of 182 installable AI agent skills for end-to-end academic research—spanning literature discovery, scientific writing, grant development, bioinformatics, drug discovery, clinical research, machine learning, and data analysis.
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Meta-skill for publication-ready figures. Use when creating journal submission figures requiring multi-panel layouts, significance annotations, error bars, colorblind-safe palettes, and specific journal formatting (Nature, Science, Cell). Orchestrates matplotlib/seaborn/plotly with publication styles. For quick…
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude Code
Run a multi-perspective Mind Council deliberation on any question, decision, or creative challenge. Use this skill whenever the user wants diverse viewpoints, needs help making a tough decision, asks for a council/panel/board discussion, wants to explore a problem from multiple angles, requests devil's advocate…
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude Code
Extract cognitive patterns and thinking fingerprints from any text. Use this skill when the user wants to analyze how someone thinks, understand cognitive style, profile writing or speech patterns, compare thinking styles between people, asks "what's my thinking style", "analyze how this person reasons", "cognitive…
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude Code needs its repo
Structured hypothesis formulation from observations. Use when you have experimental observations or data and need to formulate testable hypotheses with predictions, propose mechanisms, and design experiments to test them. Follows scientific method framework. For open-ended ideation use scientific-brainstorming; for…
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Codex
A writing guide for applications to China’s National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC), a major Chinese research funding programme. It covers 2026 applications for early-career, young-excellence, and distinguished-researcher grants.
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Codex
A writing assistant for China’s National Social Science Fund annual applications, known as NSSFC grants. It covers the 2025 application format for key, general, youth, and western-region projects.
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude Code needs its repo
Write competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC. Agency-specific formatting, review criteria, budget preparation, broader impacts, significance statements, innovation narratives, and compliance with submission requirements.
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex needs its repo
Systematically evaluate scholarly work using the ScholarEval framework, providing structured assessment across research quality dimensions including problem formulation, methodology, analysis, and writing with quantitative scoring and actionable feedback.
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Creative research ideation and exploration. Use for open-ended brainstorming sessions, exploring interdisciplinary connections, challenging assumptions, or identifying research gaps. Best for early-stage research planning when you do not have specific observations yet. For formulating testable hypotheses from data use…
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude Code needs its repo
Evaluate scientific claims and evidence quality. Use for assessing experimental design validity, identifying biases and confounders, applying evidence grading frameworks (GRADE, Cochrane Risk of Bias), or teaching critical analysis. Best for understanding evidence quality, identifying flaws. For formal peer review…
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude Code
Run structured What-If scenario analysis with multi-branch possibility exploration. Use this skill when the user asks speculative questions like "what if...", "what would happen if...", "what are the possibilities", "explore scenarios", "scenario analysis", "possibility space", "what could go wrong", "best case /…
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Data structure for annotated matrices in single-cell analysis. Use when working with .h5ad files or integrating with the scverse ecosystem. This is the data format skill—for analysis workflows use scanpy; for probabilistic models use scvi-tools; for population-scale queries use cellxgene-census.
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Infer gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from gene expression data using scalable algorithms (GRNBoost2, GENIE3). Use when analyzing transcriptomics data (bulk RNA-seq, single-cell RNA-seq) to identify transcription factor-target gene relationships and regulatory interactions. Supports distributed computation for…
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Comprehensive molecular biology toolkit. Use for sequence manipulation, file parsing (FASTA/GenBank/PDB), phylogenetics, and programmatic NCBI/PubMed access (Bio.Entrez). Best for batch processing, custom bioinformatics pipelines, BLAST automation. For quick lookups use gget; for multi-service integration use…
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Unified Python interface to 40+ bioinformatics services. Use when querying multiple databases (UniProt, KEGG, ChEMBL, Reactome) in a single workflow with consistent API. Best for cross-database analysis, ID mapping across services. For quick single-database lookups use gget; for sequence/file manipulation use…
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Query the CELLxGENE Census (61M+ cells) programmatically. Use when you need expression data across tissues, diseases, or cell types from the largest curated single-cell atlas. Best for population-scale queries, reference atlas comparisons. For analyzing your own data use scanpy or scvi-tools.
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
NGS analysis toolkit. BAM to bigWig conversion, QC (correlation, PCA, fingerprints), heatmaps/profiles (TSS, peaks), for ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, ATAC-seq visualization.
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Phylogenetic tree toolkit (ETE). Tree manipulation (Newick/NHX), evolutionary event detection, orthology/paralogy, NCBI taxonomy, visualization (PDF/SVG), for phylogenomics.
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Parse FCS (Flow Cytometry Standard) files v2.0-3.1. Extract events as NumPy arrays, read metadata/channels, convert to CSV/DataFrame, for flow cytometry data preprocessing.
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
This skill should be used when working with genomic interval data (BED files) for machine learning tasks. Use for training region embeddings (Region2Vec, BEDspace), single-cell ATAC-seq analysis (scEmbed), building consensus peaks (universes), or any ML-based analysis of genomic regions. Applies to BED file…
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex needs its repo
Fast CLI/Python queries to 20+ bioinformatics databases. Use for quick lookups: gene info, BLAST searches, AlphaFold structures, enrichment analysis. Best for interactive exploration, simple queries. For batch processing or advanced BLAST use biopython; for multi-database Python workflows use bioservices.
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex needs its repo
High-performance toolkit for genomic interval analysis in Rust with Python bindings. Use when working with genomic regions, BED files, coverage tracks, overlap detection, tokenization for ML models, or fragment analysis in computational genomics and machine learning applications.
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
This skill should be used when working with LaminDB, an open-source data framework for biology that makes data queryable, traceable, reproducible, and FAIR. Use when managing biological datasets (scRNA-seq, spatial, flow cytometry, etc.), tracking computational workflows, curating and validating data with biological…
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Build and analyze phylogenetic trees using MAFFT (multiple alignment), IQ-TREE 2 (maximum likelihood), and FastTree (fast NJ/ML). Visualize with ETE3 or FigTree. For evolutionary analysis, microbial genomics, viral phylodynamics, protein family analysis, and molecular clock studies.
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