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A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner
794 starsJun 1, 2026 pushgeo-scienceC++Bioinformatics
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Ultra-fast and memory-efficient (meta-)genome assembler
719 starsOct 28, 2025 pushgeo-scienceC++Bioinformatics
$ npx skills add voutcn/megahit#3
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$ npx skills add chhylp123/hifiasm#4
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$ npx skills add bwa-mem2/bwa-mem2#5
Plant phenotyping with image analysis
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$ npx skills add danforthcenter/plantcv#6
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$ npx skills add sokrypton/ColabFold#7
A versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences
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$ npx skills add lh3/minimap2#8
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#9
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
1.8K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-scienceShellBioinformatics
$ npx skills add bioconda/bioconda-recipes#10
Official code repository for GATK versions 4 and up
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$ npx skills add broadinstitute/gatk#11
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#12
Data intensive science for everyone.
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$ npx skills add galaxyproject/galaxy#13
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#14
Java utilities for Bioinformatics
523 starsMay 7, 2026 pushgeo-scienceJavaBioinformatics
$ npx skills add lindenb/jvarkit#15
Foldseek enables fast and sensitive comparisons of large structure sets.
1.2K starsMay 13, 2026 pushgeo-scienceCBioinformatics
$ npx skills add steineggerlab/foldseek#16
A full spaCy pipeline and models for scientific/biomedical documents.
2.0K starsDec 4, 2025 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
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