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Installs 425 bioinformatics skills covering sequence analysis, RNA-seq, single-cell, variant calling, metagenomics, structural biology, and 56 more categories. Use when setting up bioinformatics capabilities or when a bioinformatics task requires specialized…
Create and manipulate Seq, MutableSeq, and SeqRecord objects using Biopython. Use when creating sequences from strings, modifying sequence data in-place, building annotated records for file output, or debugging post-1.78 Bio.Alphabet and immutability errors.
Transcribe DNA to RNA and translate to protein using Biopython, with NCBI codon-table selection, CDS validation, and six-frame ORF finding. Use when converting a CDS or ORF to its amino-acid sequence, selecting a non-standard (mitochondrial, bacterial,…
Identifies essential genes from CRISPR-Cas9 fitness screens using BAGEL2 (Kim & Hart 2021 Genome Med), a Bayesian classifier scoring per-gene Bayes Factors via log-likelihood ratios over per-sgRNA fold changes, calibrated against CEGv2 core-essentials (Hart…
Analyzes base-editing screens for variant function. Covers library design (Hanna 2021 ClinVar-scale CBE screen benchmarked on BRCA1/2, Cuella-Martin 2021 DDR saturation), CBE vs ABE chemistry choice (BE3/BE4 vs ABE7.10/ABE8.20/ABE8e), editing-window math…
Batch effect correction for CRISPR screens covering ComBat empirical-Bayes, RUV, SVA, control-sgRNA normalization, and the model-based alternative of including batch as a covariate in MAGeCK MLE or Chronos. Covers screen-specific batch sources (passage…
Designs and analyzes combinatorial CRISPR screens covering paired-Cas9 (Big Papi, Najm 2018), enhanced AsCas12a multiplex (enCas12a, DeWeirdt 2021), in4mer 4-guide-array Cas12a (Esmaeili Anvar N et al 2024 Nat Commun 15:3577) and the Inzolia paralog-pair…
Corrects the gene-independent copy-number artifact in CRISPR-Cas9 screens (Aguirre 2016 / Munoz 2016 Cancer Discov) where amplified loci appear essential from DNA-damage burden of simultaneous cuts. Covers the gene-independent DNA-damage / G2-arrest…
Quantifies CRISPR editing outcomes with CRISPResso2 (Clement 2019 Nat Biotechnol) across Cas9-nuclease (indels, HDR), CBE and ABE base editors (target conversion + bystander), and prime editor (pegRNA-templated) modes. Covers single-amplicon (CRISPResso),…
Analyzes CRISPR drug-modifier (chemogenomic) screens with drugZ (Colic et al. 2019 Genome Med), a bidirectional Z-score method that identifies synthetic-lethal sensitizing genes and resistance-conferring suppressor genes from vehicle vs drug comparisons.…
Cross-method decision tree for calling hits in pooled CRISPR screens. Catalogs statistical models (MAGeCK RRA, MAGeCK MLE, BAGEL2, drugZ, JACKS, Chronos, CERES), experimental designs each is built for, failure modes outside design domain, reconciliation when…
Designs and analyzes in vivo CRISPR screens in animal tumor models, organoids, and immune-cell adoptive transfers. Covers bottleneck math (250x cells/sgRNA requires ~25M cells implanted; impossible for most syngeneic models, forcing focused libraries),…
Runs JACKS (Joint Analysis of CRISPR/Cas9 Knockout Screens; Allen et al 2019 Genome Research) which models per-sgRNA log-fold-change as the product of a treatment-dependent gene-essentiality term and a treatment-independent guide-efficacy term. Covers the…
Designs pooled sgRNA libraries for CRISPR knockout, interference (CRISPRi), activation (CRISPRa), Cas12a multiplex, base-editor, and prime-editor screens. Covers on-target scoring (Rule Set 2, Azimuth, DeepSpCas9, CRISPRon), off-target scoring (CFD, MIT),…
Analyzes pooled CRISPR screens with MAGeCK (Li et al 2014), covering count generation (mageck count), the RRA two-condition workflow (mageck test using alpha-RRA over per-sgRNA negative-binomial p-values), the MLE multi-condition workflow (mageck mle with…
Analyzes single-cell pooled CRISPR screens (Perturb-seq, CROP-seq, Perturb-CITE-seq, ECCITE-seq, multiome) where each cell carries an sgRNA and a scRNA-seq / surface-protein / chromatin readout. Covers experimental design (direct-capture Perturb-seq Dixit…
Designs and analyzes pooled prime-editor (PE) screens for installing precise genetic variants without bystander confounding. Covers pegRNA design with PRIDICT and PRIDICT2 for predicting per-pegRNA editing efficiency, pegRNA architecture (spacer + scaffold +…
Quality control for pooled CRISPR screens covering library representation, Gini index, log-skew, replicate Pearson and Spearman concordance, essentialome precision-recall AUC against CEGv2 (Hart 2017), Cas9 cut-toxicity diagnostics, copy-number amplicon…
End-to-end pooled and single-cell CRISPR screen analysis from FASTQ to hit genes. Orchestrates library design QC, guide counting, six-stage screen QC (plasmid Gini, replicate Pearson, CEGv2 PR-AUC, copy-number artifact), method-appropriate hit calling across…
Infer integer allele-specific copy number, tumor purity, and ploidy from tumor sequencing by jointly modeling read depth (logR) and B-allele frequency (BAF) with ASCAT, Sequenza, FACETS, PURPLE, and PureCN (tumor-only). Covers the purity-ploidy…
Annotate copy number variant segments with overlapping genes, dosage-sensitivity scores, cancer driver databases, population frequencies, and clinical-variant content. Covers bedtools/pybedtools interval intersection, AnnotSV comprehensive annotation and…
Call copy number variants with the GATK best-practices workflows — the somatic CNV pipeline (CollectReadCounts, DenoiseReadCounts with tangent normalization, ModelSegments, CallCopyRatioSegments) and the germline GATK-gCNV pipeline…
Classify constitutional (germline) copy number variants for clinical reporting using the 2019 ACMG/ClinGen technical standards points-based framework, with ClassifyCNV and AnnotSV for semi-automated scoring. Covers the separate copy-number-loss and…
Identify recurrent and driver copy number alterations across a tumor cohort with GISTIC2 (G-score, Ziggurat deconstruction, focal vs broad/arm-level analysis, q-values from permutation) and quantify copy-number signatures with the Steele 2022 COSMIC framework…
Chains a somatic (tumor-normal) SNV/indel and structural-variant pipeline end to end with GATK Mutect2 (or Strelka2), wiring the somatic-specific machinery - panel-of-normals and gnomAD germline-resource priors, GetPileupSummaries/CalculateContamination, and…
Reconstruct ancestral states at internal phylogenetic nodes for sequences (PAML codeml, IQ-TREE --ancestral, GRASP, FastML), discrete traits (corHMM hidden-rate Markov, ape::ace, phytools::make.simmap stochastic mapping, BayesTraits), and continuous traits…
Project gene annotations across genomes using TOGA (Kirilenko 2023 whole-genome-alignment chain-based projection with intactness classification), CESAR 2.0 (Sharma, Schwede & Hiller 2017 codon-aware exon projection), LiftOff (Shumate & Salzberg 2021…
Model gene-family birth-death dynamics across a species tree using CAFE5 (Mendes et al 2020 Bioinformatics 36:5516 gamma-distributed rate categories), CAFE5-error (annotation-error-aware), Count (Csurös 2010 ancestral state reconstruction), BadiRate (Librado…
Reconcile gene trees against a species tree under probabilistic models of duplication, transfer, and loss (DTL) using ALE (Szöllősi 2013 amalgamated likelihood), GeneRax (Morel 2020 ML reconciliation), AleRax (Morel 2024 co-estimation), Whale.jl (Bayesian…
Compute genome-to-genome distances (ANI, AAI, dDDH, k-mer Mash) and assign taxonomic classifications using skani (Shaw 2023), FastANI (Jain 2018), pyani / pyANI ANIb / ANIm, OrthoANI (Lee 2016), AAI (amino-acid identity), dDDH via TYGS / GGDC, GTDB-Tk…
Detect horizontal gene transfer (HGT / LGT) using compositional methods (GC%, codon usage, tetranucleotide z-scores via SIGI-HMM, AlienHunter, IslandViewer 4, IslandPath-DIMOB), phylogenetic-incongruence methods (AvP, HGTphyloDetect, ALE / GeneRax / AleRax…
Detect introgression and admixture between species or populations using Dsuite (Malinsky 2021 fast D-statistics), Patterson's D / ABBA-BABA test (Green 2010; Durand 2011), f4-ratio and f-branch statistic (Malinsky 2018), TreeMix (Pickrell & Pritchard 2012),…
Infer orthologous genes and gene families across species using OrthoFinder3 (HOG-based phylogenetic orthology), SonicParanoid2, Broccoli, ProteinOrtho, OMA / FastOMA hierarchical orthologous groups, eggNOG-mapper, JustOrthologs, and TOGA…
Build and analyze pangenomes for prokaryotes (Panaroo, PPanGGOLiN, PEPPAN, GET_HOMOLOGUES, anvi'o pangenomics) and eukaryotes (Minigraph-Cactus, PGGB, vg pangenome graphs). Implement Tettelin core/accessory/cloud genome decomposition (Tettelin 2005), Heap's…
Detect positive (diversifying / episodic / pervasive) selection using codon dN/dS frameworks. Implements PAML codeml site models (M0/M1a/M2a/M7/M8/M8a), branch models, branch-site model A (Zhang 2005), and HyPhy methods (BUSTED, BUSTED-S, BUSTED-MH,…
Detect syntenic blocks and structural rearrangements between genomes using MCScanX (Wang 2012), JCVI/MCScan (Tang 2008 Python), GENESPACE (Lovell 2022) for orthology-anchored riparian visualization, SyRI for structural variation, AnchorWave for sequence-level…
Build whole-genome alignments using Progressive Cactus (Armstrong 2020 reference-free clade-level WGA), Minigraph-Cactus (Hickey 2024 pangenome-aware), LASTZ chain/net (UCSC pipeline), MUMmer4 (Marçais 2018 pairwise), minimap2 -x asm5/10/20 (Li 2018 fast…
Detect, date, and contextualize whole-genome duplication (WGD / paleopolyploidy) events using wgd v2 (Chen et al 2024), KsRates (Sensalari 2022 substitution-rate-corrected Ks dating), DupGen_finder (Qiao 2019), MAPS (Li 2018 phylogenomic), POInT (Conant 2008…
Identify direct miRNA-target interactions from AGO HITS-CLIP, AGO-CLEAR-CLIP (chimeric reads), HEAP (Halo-Ago2 mouse), chimeric eCLIP / miR-eCLIP (deep miRNA-target profiling), or CLASH using chimeric-read processing pipelines, seed-pairing analysis, and 3'…
Annotate CLIP-seq peaks or crosslink sites to RNA features (5'UTR, CDS, 3'UTR, intron, splice junction, snoRNA, tRNA, ncRNA, repeat elements) with ChIPseeker, RCAS, RBP-Maps (Yeo splicing regulatory maps), and bedtools, applying feature-priority hierarchies,…