bio-data-visualization-dimensionality-reduction-plots

bio-data-visualization-dimensionality-reduction-plots is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S. It costs 133 tokens per session (5,047 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of bio-data-visualization-dimensionality-reduction-plots, MIT.

A guide to reducing high-dimensional biology data into two-dimensional plots using PCA, t-SNE, UMAP, or PHATE. These methods make patterns in data with many measured features easier to view.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to make and interpret PCA, t-SNE, UMAP, or PHATE plots for omics data, including PCA loadings, scree plots, and biplots.
Why use it?
It helps choose a method based on whether you need overall variation, nearby-sample groups, broad structure, or gradual transitions, while avoiding misleading interpretations of the map.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to make and interpret PCA, t-SNE, UMAP, or PHATE plots for omics data, including PCA loadings, scree plots, and biplots.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pku-yuangroup/openai4s/bio-data-visualization-dimensionality-reduction-plots
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-data-visualization-dimensionality-reduction-plots
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,047 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 $0.00133 $0.05047
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.02524
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.01009
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00505

Measured 9d ago against content hash a10db397db8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-data-visualization-dimensionality-reduction-plots 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/embedding_phd.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-data-visualization-dimensionality-reduction-plots — 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-data-visualization-dimensionality-reduction-plots/SKILL.md · 335 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 335 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: scanpy 1.10+, anndata 0.10+, scikit-learn 1.4+, umap-learn 0.5+, openTSNE 1.0+, phate 1.0+, ggplot2 3.5+, PCAtools 2.16+, matplotlib 3.8+.

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

  • Python: pip show <package> then help(module.function) to check signatures
  • R: packageVersion('<pkg>') then ?function_name to verify parameters

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

Dimensionality-Reduction Plots

"Make a PCA / UMAP / t-SNE plot" -> Choose a projection method aligned with what the plot must reveal — variance explained (PCA), local neighborhood structure (t-SNE), manifold approximation with some global structure (UMAP), or continuous transitions (PHATE). Set hyperparameters deliberately. Communicate the projection's limits and refuse to over-interpret 2D distances.

  • Python: sklearn.decomposition.PCA, openTSNE, umap-learn, phate, scanpy.tl.umap / scanpy.tl.tsne / scanpy.tl.pca
  • R: prcomp, PCAtools::pca, Seurat::RunPCA / RunUMAP / RunTSNE, phateR

The Single Most Important Modern Insight -- 2D Embeddings Distort

Chari & Pachter 2023 PLOS Comp Biol 19:e1011288 demonstrated that 2D embeddings of single-cell data lose >95% of the high-dimensional geometry — local neighborhoods are preserved by construction, but distances between distant cells, density estimates, and global topology are NOT preserved. The "specious art" of single-cell genomics is the practice of reading 2D layout as biology.

Practical consequence: a UMAP plot communicates "these cells are similar locally" and nothing more. Distance between clusters is meaningless. Density of points within a cluster is dominated by the embedding's repulsion parameter, not the underlying biology. A trajectory inferred from "the gap" between two clusters in UMAP space is an artifact unless validated against the high-dimensional data (RNA velocity, diffusion pseudotime, PHATE).

Read the full file on GitHub · 335 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 · 335 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A a10db397db8c

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bio-data-visualization-dimensionality-reduction-plots is a skill published in the GitHub repository PKU-YuanGroup/OpenAI4S (407 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 5,047 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to bio-data-visualization-dimensionality-reduction-plots, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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