performing-proteomics-quality-control

performing-proteomics-quality-control is a skill for Claude Code from MannLabs/proteomics-agent-skills. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,107 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to quality control for protein-level proteomics data. It explains how to find unreliable samples, technical problems, unwanted decoy results, and protein measurements with too much missing data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess sample quality, compare technical repeats, detect outliers, remove search artefacts, and filter poorly observed proteins.
Why use it?
Outliers and weakly supported measurements can distort later analysis. Quality checks help remove data that is likely to reflect technical problems rather than biology.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the proteomics plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess sample quality, compare technical repeats, detect outliers, remove search artefacts, and filter poorly observed proteins.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mannlabs/proteomics-agent-skills/performing-proteomics-quality-control
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 MannLabs/proteomics-agent-skills --skill performing-proteomics-quality-control
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MannLabs/proteomics-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install proteomics, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for performing-proteomics-quality-control

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mannlabs/proteomics-agent-skills/performing-proteomics-quality-control/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mannlabs/proteomics-agent-skills/performing-proteomics-quality-control)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mannlabs/proteomics-agent-skills/performing-proteomics-quality-control"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mannlabs/proteomics-agent-skills/performing-proteomics-quality-control/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for performing-proteomics-quality-control

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mannlabs/proteomics-agent-skills/performing-proteomics-quality-control"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mannlabs/proteomics-agent-skills/performing-proteomics-quality-control.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,107 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 $0.00058 $0.01107
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00443
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00111

Measured 3d ago against content hash 041f3fab6e43, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

performing-proteomics-quality-control 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 3d 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.

plugins/proteomics/skills/performing-proteomics-quality-control/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Performing Proteomics Quality Control

Goal: Remove outlier samples and unsupported features from protein-level quantification matrices.

Context and Definitions

Key Metrics

  • Decoy prefixes: REV_, DECOY_, or boolean decoy indicator column
  • Quality Control (QC) for technical replicates: Remove technical replicates when coefficient of Variation (CV) > 20-30% or Pearson Correlation R < 0.9
  • Median absolute deviation (MAD)-based outlier detection: An observation x from a set of observations X is flagged as an outlier when |x - median(X)| > N × MAD(X), where N is a user-defined factor. MAD is calculated as the median of absolute deviations from the median: MAD(X) = median(|X - median(X)|).
  • Feature Completeness: Feature-wise fraction of samples with non-missing values.

Study Types

Type Min features/sample Completeness Intensity metric
Single-cell >500-600 proteins 10-15% Total intensity
Bulk tissue No strict minimum 50-70% Total intensity
Plasma/serum No strict minimum 20-50% Median intensity

Defaults

Parameter Default Adjust when
False discovery threshold 0.01 Standard value
MAD multiplier (N) 3 Lower (<3) strict, higher (>3) more permissive
Min unique peptides 2 >2 for validation studies
Feature Completeness Study-dependent, typically between 10% - 70% Must find a compromise between robustness and expected biological prevalence. If an effect is expected in a small subset of samples (e.g. a rare cell type) it should not be removed by feature completeness filters

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 102 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 041f3fab6e43

Subscribe to this mod's changes

performing-proteomics-quality-control is a skill published in the GitHub repository MannLabs/proteomics-agent-skills (16 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,107 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-15.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

proteomics-data-import

Load when ingesting a MaxQuant proteinGroups.txt, FragPipe combinedprotein.tsv, DIA-NN report, or generic CSV / TSV protein-quantification table — normalises columns to a standard schema, emits tables/proteins.csv. Skip when raw spectra are the input (run the search engine first); the file is already OmicsClaw schema.

TianGzlab/OmicsClaw · 81 tokens

proteomics-de

Load when computing two-group differential protein abundance (group2 vs group1, log2FC + p-value + BH-adjusted FDR) via Welch t-test, equal-variance t-test, or Mann-Whitney on a wide protein × sample CSV. Skip when you need multi-condition DE (run pairwise contrasts manually); label-based TMT linear-mixed models.

TianGzlab/OmicsClaw · 79 tokens

proteomics-enrichment

Load for Fisher over-representation analysis of protein identifiers against caller-supplied pathways. Skip rank-based GSEA (use bulkrna-enrichment) or protein differential testing (use proteomics-de).

TianGzlab/OmicsClaw · 45 tokens

proteomics-identification

Load when summarising peptide identifications (PSM count, unique peptide count, distinct protein count, score / charge distributions) from a peptide-level CSV produced by MaxQuant / FragPipe / DIA-NN. Skip when raw spectra are the input (run a search engine first); working with protein-quantification tables (use…

TianGzlab/OmicsClaw · 76 tokens

proteomics-ms-qc

Load when computing protein-table QC — proteins × samples count, missing-value rate, intensity CV (median + mean) — from a MaxQuant / FragPipe / DIA-NN protein-quantification CSV. Skip when raw mzML / RAW spectra are the input (run a search engine first); peptide-level QC is needed (use proteomics-identification).

TianGzlab/OmicsClaw · 77 tokens

proteomics-ptm

Load when summarising PTM sites (phosphorylation, acetylation, ubiquitination, etc.) from a per-site CSV — site-class assignment (Olsen et al. Class I/II/III by localizationprobability), per-PTM-type counts, amino-acid distribution, sites-per-protein. Skip when raw spectra are the input; you only need protein-level…

TianGzlab/OmicsClaw · 95 tokens