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Versatile open-source tool for microbiome analysis
748 starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-scienceC++Bioinformatics
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GTDB-Tk: a toolkit for assigning objective taxonomic classifications to bacterial and archaeal genomes.
607 starsMay 20, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add Ecogenomics/GTDBTk#3
MMseqs2: ultra fast and sensitive search and clustering suite
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$ npx skills add soedinglab/MMseqs2#4
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1.1K starsMar 17, 2026 pushgeo-scienceScalaBioinformatics
$ npx skills add bigdatagenomics/adam#5
An analysis and visualization platform for 'omics data
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$ npx skills add merenlab/anvio#6
Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)
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$ npx skills add biopython/biopython#7
A DSL for data-driven computational pipelines
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$ npx skills add nextflow-io/nextflow#8
An ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessor (QC/adapters/trimming/filtering/splitting/merging...)
2.4K starsJun 1, 2026 pushgeo-scienceC++Bioinformatics
$ npx skills add OpenGene/fastp#9
Making Protein folding accessible to all!
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$ npx skills add sokrypton/ColabFold#10
Single-cell analysis in Python. Scales to >100M cells.
2.5K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add scverse/scanpy#11
A versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences
2.2K starsMay 19, 2026 pushgeo-scienceCBioinformatics
$ npx skills add lh3/minimap2#12
scikit-bio: a community-driven Python library for bioinformatics, providing versatile data structures, algorithms and educational resources.
1.2K starsJun 8, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add scikit-bio/scikit-bio#13
A cross-platform and ultrafast toolkit for FASTA/Q file manipulation
1.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-scienceGoBioinformatics
$ npx skills add shenwei356/seqkit#14
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
1.8K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-scienceShellBioinformatics
$ npx skills add bioconda/bioconda-recipes#15
Official code repository for GATK versions 4 and up
2.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-scienceJavaBioinformatics
$ npx skills add broadinstitute/gatk#16
Scientific workflow engine designed for simplicity & scalability. Trivially transition between one off use cases to massive scale production environments
1.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-scienceScalaBioinformatics
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