bio-atac-seq-footprinting

bio-atac-seq-footprinting is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S. It costs 74 tokens per session (4,894 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of bio-atac-seq-footprinting, MIT.

A skill for finding likely transcription-factor binding sites in ATAC-seq data. Transcription factors are proteins that bind DNA to help control genes, and their binding can leave a small protected gap in DNA-cutting patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to correct Tn5 bias, score footprints, identify motif-supported binding sites, and compare transcription-factor activity between samples.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish possible protein-bound sites from generally open DNA while accounting for Tn5, the enzyme used to cut accessible DNA, being sequence-biased.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to correct Tn5 bias, score footprints, identify motif-supported binding sites, and compare transcription-factor activity between samples.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,894 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 94% 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 $0.00074 $0.04894
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.02447
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00979
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00489

Measured 13d ago against content hash 5fe6ced0856d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-atac-seq-footprinting 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 13d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/run_tobias.sh), 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

94% identical to bio-atac-seq-footprinting — 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-atac-seq-footprinting/SKILL.md · 299 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 299 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: TOBIAS 0.16+, RGT HINT-ATAC 1.0.2+, Wellington (pyDNase) 0.3+, scprinter 0.1+, samtools 1.19+, bedtools 2.31+, pyBigWig 0.3+, MEME suite 5.5+.

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 unexpected errors, introspect the installed package and adapt rather than retrying.

TF Footprinting

"Identify TF binding footprints in my ATAC-seq data" -> Detect short DNA stretches (typically 6-20 bp) of reduced Tn5 cleavage within accessible regions, where a bound TF physically protects DNA. Requires (1) Tn5 sequence-bias correction, (2) per-base footprint scoring, (3) motif-anchored detection.

  • CLI: TOBIAS ATACorrect -> TOBIAS ScoreBigwig (formerly FootprintScores) -> TOBIAS BINDetect
  • CLI: rgt-hint footprinting --atac-seq (HINT-ATAC, single-step)
  • CLI: wellington_footprints.py (legacy DNase, adapted for ATAC)
  • Python: scprinter (multi-scale, single-cell aware; Hu 2025 Nature)

Tn5 has a strong sequence preference (Karabacak Calviello 2019), reading approximately +/- 4 bp around the insertion site. Without bias correction, "footprints" reflect Tn5 sequence preference rather than TF binding. This is the single most important step.

Algorithmic Taxonomy

Tool Bias model Scoring Min depth Strength Fails when
TOBIAS (BINDetect) +/-12 bp k-mer window (--k_flank 12), dinucleotide weight matrix (DWM) Two-step: continuous footprint score then motif-anchored bound/unbound classification >= 50M nuclear reads Mature, peer-reviewed (Bentsen 2020), differential support, modular pipeline Below 50M reads; sequencing errors near motif inflate background
HINT-ATAC Hidden-Markov + dinucleotide bias correction HMM emits open/footprint/closed states; calls ranked footprints >= 50M Single-step; integrates motif matching; handles DNase too Less control over individual stages; HMM occasionally over-segments
Wellington (pyDNase) DNase-developed; ATAC adaptation by post-shift Cleavage-rate Poisson Z-score >= 50M (DNase >= 80M) Original footprinting framework; well-validated for DNase Designed for DNase II; ATAC-specific bias not corrected as carefully
PIQ Bayesian latent variable on cut sites Genome-wide PWM scan + cleavage profile >= 30M (lower because of model) Per-TF posterior probabilities; works on lower depth Outdated; not actively maintained; harder to install
scprinter Multi-scale CNN-based footprint and TF activity Resolves footprints at multiple TF size scales (CTCF vs nuclear receptors) >= 1M cells (sc) or 50M (bulk) Modern ML approach; single-cell; multi-scale resolves problematic TF families Newer tool; benchmarks evolving; GPU recommended
TOBIAS + scprinter combination TOBIAS bias correction + scprinter scoring Two-step bridging >= 50M Combines the best bias model with multi-scale scoring Manual pipeline, no single CLI

Read the full file on GitHub · 299 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. 13d ago First seen · 299 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 5fe6ced0856d

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bio-atac-seq-footprinting is a skill published in the GitHub repository PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S (407 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 4,894 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to bio-atac-seq-footprinting, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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