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Sniffles alternatives for AI agents.

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Structural variation caller using third generation sequencing

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#1

Biopython

Similarity 130Trust 91Excellent 100

Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)

5.1K starsJun 8, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add biopython/biopython
#2

Scanpy

Similarity 129Trust 93Excellent 100

Single-cell analysis in Python. Scales to >100M cells.

2.5K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add scverse/scanpy
#3

Scikit Bio

Similarity 128Trust 95Excellent 100

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
#4

Omicverse

Similarity 128Trust 94Excellent 100

A python library for multi omics included bulk, single cell and spatial RNA-seq analysis.

1.0K starsJun 14, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add omicverse/omicverse
#5

Hail

Similarity 128Trust 93Excellent 100

Cloud-native genomic dataframes and batch computing

1.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add hail-is/hail
#6

Ncbi Genome Download

Similarity 126Trust 89Excellent 96

Scripts to download genomes from the NCBI FTP servers

1.1K starsApr 7, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add kblin/ncbi-genome-download
#7

Scispacy

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 86

A full spaCy pipeline and models for scientific/biomedical documents.

2.0K starsDec 4, 2025 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add allenai/scispacy
#8

Biotite

Similarity 124Trust 86Excellent 87

A comprehensive library for computational molecular biology

958 starsJun 11, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add biotite-dev/biotite
#9

Plantcv

Similarity 123Trust 86Excellent 86

Plant phenotyping with image analysis

798 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add danforthcenter/plantcv
#10

PyDESeq2

Similarity 123Trust 86Excellent 86

A Python implementation of the DESeq2 pipeline for bulk RNA-seq DEA.

753 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add scverse/PyDESeq2
#11

Anndata

Similarity 123Trust 86Excellent 86

Annotated data.

752 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add scverse/anndata
#12

Cutadapt

Similarity 122Trust 86Excellent 85

Cutadapt removes adapter sequences from sequencing reads

582 starsJun 8, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add marcelm/cutadapt
#13

Dash Bio

Similarity 122Trust 86Excellent 85

Open-source bioinformatics components for Dash

569 starsMay 29, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add plotly/dash-bio
#14

Sourmash

Similarity 121Trust 82Strong 80

Quickly search, compare, and analyze genomic and metagenomic data sets.

547 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add sourmash-bio/sourmash
#15

Clinker

Similarity 120Trust 82Strong 75

Gene cluster comparison figure generator

643 starsDec 22, 2025 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add gamcil/clinker
#16

Adam

Similarity 120Trust 92Excellent 92

ADAM is a genomics analysis platform with specialized file formats built using Apache Avro, Apache Spark, and Apache Parquet. Apache 2 licensed.

1.1K starsMar 17, 2026 pushgeo-scienceScalaBioinformatics
$ npx skills add bigdatagenomics/adam

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