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Burrow-Wheeler Aligner for short-read alignment (see minimap2 for long-read alignment)
1.8K starsMar 22, 2025 pushgeo-scienceCBioinformatics
$ npx skills add lh3/bwaAlternatives
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A versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences
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Foldseek enables fast and sensitive comparisons of large structure sets.
1.2K starsMay 13, 2026 pushgeo-scienceCBioinformatics
$ npx skills add steineggerlab/foldseek#3
Toolkit for processing sequences in FASTA/Q formats
1.5K starsJun 1, 2025 pushgeo-scienceCBioinformatics
$ npx skills add lh3/seqtk#4
The next version of bwa-mem
838 starsOct 15, 2025 pushgeo-scienceC++Bioinformatics
$ npx skills add bwa-mem2/bwa-mem2#5
A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner
794 starsJun 1, 2026 pushgeo-scienceC++Bioinformatics
$ npx skills add BenLangmead/bowtie2#6
Hifiasm: a haplotype-resolved assembler for accurate Hifi reads
783 starsMay 31, 2026 pushgeo-scienceC++Bioinformatics
$ npx skills add chhylp123/hifiasm#7
Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)
5.1K starsJun 8, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add biopython/biopython#8
Making Protein folding accessible to all!
2.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-scienceJupyter NotebookBioinformatics
$ npx skills add sokrypton/ColabFold#9
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#10
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
1.8K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-scienceShellBioinformatics
$ npx skills add bioconda/bioconda-recipes#11
Official code repository for GATK versions 4 and up
2.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-scienceJavaBioinformatics
$ npx skills add broadinstitute/gatk#12
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#13
Data intensive science for everyone.
1.8K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add galaxyproject/galaxy#14
Cloud-native genomic dataframes and batch computing
1.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add hail-is/hail#15
BWK awk modified for biological data
641 starsAug 11, 2022 pushgeo-scienceCBioinformatics
$ npx skills add lh3/bioawk#16
Java utilities for Bioinformatics
523 starsMay 7, 2026 pushgeo-scienceJavaBioinformatics
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