bio-comparative-genomics-hgt-detection

bio-comparative-genomics-hgt-detection is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S. It costs 189 tokens per session (8,946 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of bio-comparative-genomics-hgt-detection, MIT.

A set of methods for finding genes that may have moved between unrelated organisms, a process called horizontal gene transfer. It compares sequence composition, gene relationships, and similarity patterns to detect possible transfers and their sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to screen genomes for transferred genes, investigate possible donors, and combine composition, phylogenetic, and database-search evidence.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish inherited genes from genes acquired from another organism, which can otherwise make evolutionary histories difficult to interpret.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to screen genomes for transferred genes, investigate possible donors, and combine composition, phylogenetic, and database-search evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pku-yuangroup/openai4s/bio-comparative-genomics-hgt-detection
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S --skill bio-comparative-genomics-hgt-detection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 189 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,946 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 95% 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 $0.00189 $0.08946
Opus 5 $0.00095 $0.04473
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.01789
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00895

Measured 9d ago against content hash 06931f0cfbb6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-comparative-genomics-hgt-detection 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/hgt_detection.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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

subprocess.run([
Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to bio-comparative-genomics-hgt-detection — 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-comparative-genomics-hgt-detection/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: HGTector 2.0b3+, AvP 1.0.4+, HGTphyloDetect 1.0+, ALE 1.0+ (ssolo/ALE github), GeneRax 2.1.3+, AleRax 1.2.0+ (Morel 2024), RANGER-DTL 2.0+, IslandViewer 4 (web), mobileOG-db 1.0+, MetaCHIP 1.10+, IQ-TREE 2.3.6+, BioPython 1.84+, DIAMOND 2.1.10+. Open Tree of Life and NCBI Taxonomy reference databases updated 2024-Q3 minimum for HGTector/AvP.

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

  • Python: pip show hgtector then hgtector search --help
  • CLI: ALEml_undated --help, generax --help, alerax --help
  • DB: hgtector database --check for taxonomy version

If code throws Taxonomy ID not found, database version mismatch, or KeyError on NCBI taxids, refresh the local taxonomy dump (NCBI updates monthly). ALE/GeneRax expect newick gene trees with bootstraps; AleRax expects gene-tree distributions (uniform bootstrap samples or UFBoot trees).

Horizontal Gene Transfer Detection

"Are these genes horizontally acquired, and from where?" -> HGT signal lives in three orthogonal signal classes: composition (recent transfers carry donor codon usage; erodes by Lawrence-Ochman 1998 amelioration in ~50-200 Myr), phylogeny (gene tree nests within distant clade), and phyletic distribution (patchy taxonomic presence). No single class proves HGT; claims require concordance across at least two classes plus mandatory exclusion of contamination and differential gene loss (DGL). The most consequential failure mode in eukaryotic HGT detection is contamination passing all three classes silently (Boothby 2015 tardigrade "17% HGT" refuted by Koutsovoulos 2016; Crisp 2015 human "145 HGTs" refuted by Salzberg 2017 GB 18:85).

  • Python: hgtector search -> hgtector analyze for BLAST-distribution screen
  • Python: AvP (Koutsovoulos 2022 PLoS Comp Biol 18:e1010686) for eukaryotic phylogenetic HGT with automated tree workflow
  • CLI: ALEml_undated (Szöllősi 2013 Syst Biol 62:901), generax (Morel 2020 MBE 37:2763), alerax (Morel 2024 Bioinformatics 40:btae162) for prokaryote DTL reconciliation
  • Web: IslandViewer 4 (Bertelli 2017 NAR 45:W30) for bacterial genomic islands
  • CLI: metachip (Song 2019 Microbiome 7:36) for metagenomic HGT inference

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. 9d ago First seen · 419 lines · 189 tokens per session scan A 06931f0cfbb6

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bio-comparative-genomics-hgt-detection is a skill published in the GitHub repository PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S (407 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 189 tokens to every session and 8,946 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). It is 95% identical to bio-comparative-genomics-hgt-detection, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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