Official code repository for GATK versions 4 and up
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Java utilities for Bioinformatics
Official code repository for GATK versions 4 and up
$ npx skills add broadinstitute/gatkData intensive science for everyone.
$ npx skills add galaxyproject/galaxyThe Chemistry Development Kit
$ npx skills add cdk/cdkA versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences
$ npx skills add lh3/minimap2:book::microscope::coffee: BioJava is an open-source project dedicated to providing a Java library for processing biological data.
$ npx skills add biojava/biojavaScripts to download genomes from the NCBI FTP servers
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$ npx skills add bigdatagenomics/adamTools to process and analyze deep sequencing data.
$ npx skills add deeptools/deepToolsPysam is a Python package for reading, manipulating, and writing genomics data such as SAM/BAM/CRAM and VCF/BCF files. It's a lightweight wrapper of the HTSlib API, the same one that powers samtools, bcftools, and tabix.
$ npx skills add pysam-developers/pysamPlant phenotyping with image analysis
$ npx skills add danforthcenter/plantcvA fast and sensitive gapped read aligner
$ npx skills add BenLangmead/bowtie2Hifiasm: a haplotype-resolved assembler for accurate Hifi reads
$ npx skills add chhylp123/hifiasmBurrow-Wheeler Aligner for short-read alignment (see minimap2 for long-read alignment)
$ npx skills add lh3/bwaOfficial git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)
$ npx skills add biopython/biopythonMaking Protein folding accessible to all!
$ npx skills add sokrypton/ColabFoldscikit-bio: a community-driven Python library for bioinformatics, providing versatile data structures, algorithms and educational resources.
$ npx skills add scikit-bio/scikit-bioHow to choose
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