bio-alignment-trimming

bio-alignment-trimming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S. It costs 60 tokens per session (6,053 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of bio-alignment-trimming, MIT.

A guide for removing unreliable columns or residues from multiple sequence alignments, which line up related DNA, RNA, or protein sequences. It covers ClipKIT, trimAl, BMGE, Divvier, and HMMcleaner.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare alignments for building evolutionary trees, creating hidden Markov models, or studying natural selection.
Why use it?
Poorly aligned or contaminating sections can affect later analysis. The guide helps choose a trimming method and settings for the intended result.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to prepare alignments for building evolutionary trees, creating hidden Markov models, or studying natural selection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pku-yuangroup/openai4s/bio-alignment-alignment-trimming
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 PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S --skill bio-alignment-alignment-trimming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,053 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 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00060 $0.06053
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.03027
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.01211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00605

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6328149f4bd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-alignment-trimming 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/bmge_trim.py, scripts/clipkit_trim.py, scripts/divvier_split.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to bio-alignment-trimming — 12 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/bioskills/bio-alignment-alignment-trimming/SKILL.md · 319 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 319 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: ClipKIT 2.1+, trimAl 1.4+, BMGE 1.12+, Divvier 1.01+, HMMcleaner (current CPAN release of Bio::MUST::Apps::HmmCleaner), BioPython 1.83+

Before using code patterns, verify installed versions match. If versions differ:

  • CLI: clipkit --version, trimal --version, BMGE --help, Divvier --help
  • Python: pip show <package> then help(module.function) to check signatures

If code throws ImportError, AttributeError, or TypeError, introspect the installed package and adapt the example to match the actual API rather than retrying.

Alignment Trimming

"Remove unreliable columns from this MSA" -> Filter or split columns based on gap fraction, conservation, entropy, or per-residue quality.

  • CLI: clipkit, trimal, BMGE, Divvier, HMMcleaner
  • Python: post-process via Bio.AlignIO with custom column masks

"Make this alignment publication-grade for phylogenetics" -> Apply ClipKIT's kpic-smart-gap mode, or trimAl -automated1, then verify via tree-stability comparison before vs after trimming.

Tool choice and aggressiveness matter more than trimming vs not-trimming. Pick a mode by dataset character (table below), and always run a sensitivity check by building trees on trimmed and untrimmed alignments.

Pick a Trimming Mode by Dataset Character

Dataset character Trimming effect Recommended approach
Deep-divergence orthologs (>500 Ma), saturated 3rd codons Aggressive trimming HURTS (Tan-style result) No trim or kpic-smart-gap only; report sensitivity to trimming choice
Mid-depth eukaryotic (animal phyla, fungal classes) ClipKIT kpic-smart-gap HELPS Steenwyk-style result
Shallow (within-genus) All trimmers ~equivalent Choose for downstream-tool compatibility
Concatenated supermatrix with very long alignments (>10 kb) Trimming reduces phylogenetic noise kpic-smart-gap or BMGE -h 0.5
Single short genes (<200 bp aligned) Trimming amplifies stochastic error Skip column trimming; use sequence-level outlier filtering

Read the full file on GitHub · 319 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 11d ago First seen · 319 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 6328149f4bd5

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bio-alignment-trimming is a skill published in the GitHub repository PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S (403 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 6,053 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to bio-alignment-trimming, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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