bio-comparative-genomics-positive-selection

bio-comparative-genomics-positive-selection is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S. It costs 243 tokens per session (10,679 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of bio-comparative-genomics-positive-selection, MIT.

A comparative-genomics workflow for testing whether DNA changes have been favored by natural selection. It uses codon models, where dN/dS compares protein-changing changes with silent changes, plus several PAML and HyPhy methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test positive selection across species, lineages, or codon sites after preparing and checking sequence alignments and evolutionary trees.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish selection signals from ordinary sequence differences and shows whether selection acts across a gene, on a branch, or at particular sites.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to test positive selection across species, lineages, or codon sites after preparing and checking sequence alignments and evolutionary trees.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pku-yuangroup/openai4s/bio-comparative-genomics-positive-selection
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-comparative-genomics-positive-selection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 243 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,679 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 $0.00243 $0.10679
Opus 5 $0.00121 $0.05339
Sonnet 5 $0.00049 $0.02136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.01068

Measured 8d ago against content hash 604b390fba92, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-comparative-genomics-positive-selection 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 8d ago.

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

# MACSE V2: wget https://bioweb.supagro.inra.fr/macse/releases/macse_v2.07.jar
Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to bio-comparative-genomics-positive-selection — 14 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-positive-selection/SKILL.md · 503 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 503 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: PAML 4.10.7+, HyPhy 2.5.62+ (BUSTED-MH from Lucaci 2023 MBE 40:msad150; FUBAR-MH from same), datamonkey.org 2024+ for web jobs, IQ-TREE 2.3.6+, MACSE V2.07+, PRANK 170427+, MAFFT 7.526+, PREQUAL 1.02+, HmmCleaner 0.243+, GARD (HyPhy bundled), RDP5 5.59+, ete4 4.1.0+, BioPython 1.84+, scipy 1.13+, polyDFE 2.0+, DFE-alpha 2.16+, GRAPES 1.1.1+, RERconverge 0.3.0+, CSUBST 1.6.0+, PhyloAcc 2.4.0+. Quest-for-Selection benchmark refreshed annually.

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

  • CLI: codeml (PAML; check by codeml /dev/null -- prints version banner), hyphy --version, gard --help
  • Python: pip show pyhyphy; introspect ete4 API for tree-labeling
  • R: packageVersion('RERconverge'); ?correlateWithBinaryPhenotype

If code throws branch-site test LRT non-positive, omega2 hit upper bound 999, MEME ML mixed gradient, the most common cause is alignment error or saturated dS -- inspect alignment with TCS / Guidance2 and dS-vs-divergence-time. PAML 4.10 changed several control-file keywords from 4.9 (getSE = 1 syntax tightened).

Positive Selection Analysis

"Is this gene / branch / site under positive selection?" -> dN/dS (omega = nonsynonymous-to-synonymous substitution rate ratio) framework with explicit choice of WHICH question is being asked (gene-wide / branch-specific / site-specific / episodic) and WHICH null is being rejected. The "test failed because of selection" claim has more known confounders than any other comparative-genomics inference; mandatory pre-screens are: recombination (GARD), alignment errors (PREQUAL or HmmCleaner), saturation (dS distribution), and gBGC (W->S substitution bias). Skipping any one inflates Type-I error to ~20-50% (Anisimova & Yang 2007 MBE 24:1219; Pond 2006 Mol Biol Evol 23:1891).

  • CLI: codeml PAML site, branch, branch-site models
  • CLI: hyphy busted hyphy meme hyphy fel hyphy fubar hyphy absrel hyphy relax hyphy gard
  • Web: datamonkey.org for HyPhy jobs without local install
  • R: RERconverge::correlateWithBinaryPhenotype() for trait-rate associations
  • CLI: csubst analyze for convergent substitution
  • R/CLI: phyloacc for noncoding accelerated evolution

Read the full file on GitHub · 503 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. 8d ago First seen · 503 lines · 243 tokens per session scan A 604b390fba92

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bio-comparative-genomics-positive-selection is a skill published in the GitHub repository PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S (407 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 243 tokens to every session and 10,679 once invoked, about $0.0012 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 98% identical to bio-comparative-genomics-positive-selection, differing in 14 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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