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Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)
5.1K starsJun 8, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add biopython/biopythonAlternatives
Edlib alternatives for AI agents.
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Lightweight, super fast C/C++ (& Python) library for sequence alignment using edit (Levenshtein) distance.
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A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner
794 starsJun 1, 2026 pushgeo-scienceC++Bioinformatics
$ npx skills add BenLangmead/bowtie2#3
Single-cell analysis in Python. Scales to >100M cells.
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$ npx skills add scverse/scanpy#4
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$ npx skills add lh3/minimap2#5
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$ npx skills add scikit-bio/scikit-bio#6
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$ npx skills add omicverse/omicverse#7
Cloud-native genomic dataframes and batch computing
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$ npx skills add hail-is/hail#8
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$ npx skills add OpenGene/fastp#9
Scripts to download genomes from the NCBI FTP servers
1.1K starsApr 7, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add kblin/ncbi-genome-download#10
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#11
A full spaCy pipeline and models for scientific/biomedical documents.
2.0K starsDec 4, 2025 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add allenai/scispacy#12
🐟 🍣 🍱 Highly-accurate & wicked fast transcript-level quantification from RNA-seq reads using selective alignment
893 starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-scienceRustBioinformatics
$ npx skills add COMBINE-lab/salmon#13
A comprehensive library for computational molecular biology
958 starsJun 11, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add biotite-dev/biotite#14
Pysam 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.
895 starsJun 3, 2026 pushgeo-scienceCythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add pysam-developers/pysam#15
The next version of bwa-mem
838 starsOct 15, 2025 pushgeo-scienceC++Bioinformatics
$ npx skills add bwa-mem2/bwa-mem2#16
Plant phenotyping with image analysis
798 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add danforthcenter/plantcvHow to choose
When should you switch?
Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Edlib if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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