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A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner
794 starsJun 1, 2026 pushgeo-scienceC++Bioinformatics
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$ npx skills add voutcn/megahit#5
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$ npx skills add lh3/bwa#6
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$ npx skills add biopython/biopython#7
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$ npx skills add sokrypton/ColabFold#8
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$ npx skills add jts/nanopolish#9
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$ npx skills add scikit-bio/scikit-bio#10
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
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$ npx skills add bioconda/bioconda-recipes#11
Official code repository for GATK versions 4 and up
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$ npx skills add broadinstitute/gatk#12
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$ npx skills add omicverse/omicverse#13
Data intensive science for everyone.
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$ npx skills add galaxyproject/galaxy#14
Cloud-native genomic dataframes and batch computing
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$ npx skills add hail-is/hail#15
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$ npx skills add OpenGene/fastp#16
Java utilities for Bioinformatics
523 starsMay 7, 2026 pushgeo-scienceJavaBioinformatics
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