reading-proteomics-data

reading-proteomics-data is a skill for Claude Code from MannLabs/proteomics-agent-skills. It costs 61 tokens per session (957 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to loading proteomics search results, which are measurements of proteins made by mass spectrometry, from tools such as DIA-NN and MaxQuant. It maps each tool's column names to common names and supports initial filtering.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read peptide-spectrum match tables or protein-by-sample matrices, identify the relevant columns, standardize them, and prepare data for analysis.
Why use it?
Proteomics tools save similar information in different file layouts and use different column names. This guide reduces the manual work and mistakes involved in combining those results.

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 read peptide-spectrum match tables or protein-by-sample matrices, identify the relevant columns, standardize them, and prepare data for analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mannlabs/proteomics-agent-skills/reading-proteomics-data
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 reading-proteomics-data
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.

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README.md
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 957 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 $0.00061 $0.00957
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00383
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00096

Measured 3d ago against content hash 9178af160205, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reading-proteomics-data 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/reading-proteomics-data/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reading Proteomics Search Engine Outputs

1. Context

Table Types

Type Format Feature level Use When
Peptide spectrum match (PSM) table Long (one row per match) Precursor, Peptides (optional), Proteins, Genes (optional) Peptide-level analysis, PTMs, custom aggregation
Protein Group (PG) matrix Wide (proteins × samples) Proteins, Genes (Optional) Protein-level analysis

Use PG matrices for protein- and gene-level analyses, if available

Engine Detection Signatures

Column Mapping References contain the mapping of search-engine columns to standardized columns. Multiple column names might map to the same standardized column name, depending on the search engine version

Engine Key Columns Typical Files
DIA-NN Precursor.Id, Protein.Group, Run pg_matrix.tsv, report.tsv
MaxQuant Raw file, Protein IDs proteinGroups.txt, evidence.txt
Spectronaut PG.ProteinGroups, R.FileName *_Report.tsv
AlphaDIA pg, precursor.idx, run pg_matrix.tsv
Sage filename, stripped_peptide, sage_discriminant_score results.sage.tsv
MSFragger Protein ID, Spectral Count combined_protein.tsv, psm.tsv
AlphaPept Unnamed: 0, _LFQ suffix results.hdf

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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 · 66 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 9178af160205

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reading-proteomics-data is a skill published in the GitHub repository MannLabs/proteomics-agent-skills (16 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 957 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.

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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…

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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…

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