bio-alignment-filtering

bio-alignment-filtering is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S. It costs 44 tokens per session (4,369 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of bio-alignment-filtering, MIT.

A tool for selecting reads from BAM alignment files by flags, mapping quality, or genomic region. BAM files store sequencing reads aligned to a reference genome.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with samtools or pysam to keep or exclude reads based on alignment flags, set a minimum mapping quality, or select reads overlapping BED regions.
Why use it?
It removes unwanted or unreliable reads before analysis and lets you work with only the data relevant to a target region. This reduces noise and unnecessary processing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it with samtools or pysam to keep or exclude reads based on alignment flags, set a minimum mapping quality, or select reads overlapping BED regions.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,369 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 98% 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 $0.00044 $0.04369
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.02184
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00874
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00437

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8f45310876e0, 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-filtering scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 1 executable file (scripts/filter_bam.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

for read in infile.fetch(chrom, start, end):
Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to bio-alignment-filtering — 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-files-alignment-filtering/SKILL.md · 419 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 419 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: pysam 0.22+, samtools 1.19+

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

  • Python: pip show <package> then help(module.function) to check signatures
  • CLI: <tool> --version then <tool> --help to confirm flags

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

Alignment Filtering

"Filter my BAM file to keep only high-quality reads" -> Select reads by FLAG bits, mapping quality, and genomic regions using samtools view or pysam.

  • CLI: samtools view with -F/-f/-q/-L flags (samtools)
  • Python: pysam.AlignmentFile iteration with attribute filters (pysam)

Filter alignments by flags, quality, and regions using samtools and pysam.

Filter Flags

Option Description
-f FLAG Include reads with ALL bits set
-F FLAG Exclude reads with ANY bits set
-G FLAG Exclude reads with ALL bits set
-q MAPQ Minimum mapping quality
-L BED Include reads overlapping regions

Common FLAG Values

Flag Hex Meaning
1 0x1 Paired
2 0x2 Proper pair
4 0x4 Unmapped
8 0x8 Mate unmapped
16 0x10 Reverse strand
32 0x20 Mate reverse strand
64 0x40 First in pair (read1)
128 0x80 Second in pair (read2)
256 0x100 Secondary alignment
512 0x200 Failed QC
1024 0x400 Duplicate
2048 0x800 Supplementary

Filter by FLAG

Keep Only Mapped Reads

samtools view -F 4 -o mapped.bam input.bam

Keep Only Unmapped Reads

samtools view -f 4 -o unmapped.bam input.bam

Keep Only Properly Paired

samtools view -f 2 -o proper.bam input.bam

Remove Duplicates

samtools view -F 1024 -o nodup.bam input.bam

Remove Secondary and Supplementary

samtools view -F 2304 -o primary.bam input.bam

Read the full file on GitHub · 419 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. 11d ago First seen · 419 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 8f45310876e0

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bio-alignment-filtering is a skill published in the GitHub repository PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S (403 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 4,369 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 98% identical to bio-alignment-filtering, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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