Alternatives

Bakta alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Bakta

Rapid & standardized annotation of bacterial genomes, MAGs & plasmids

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#1

GTDBTk

Similarity 123Trust 88Excellent 85

GTDB-Tk: a toolkit for assigning objective taxonomic classifications to bacterial and archaeal genomes.

607 starsMay 20, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add Ecogenomics/GTDBTk
#2

Biopython

Similarity 122Trust 91Excellent 100

Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)

5.1K starsJun 8, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add biopython/biopython
#3

Scanpy

Similarity 121Trust 93Excellent 100

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

2.5K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add scverse/scanpy
#4

Scikit Bio

Similarity 120Trust 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
#5

Omicverse

Similarity 120Trust 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
#6

Galaxy

Similarity 120Trust 89Excellent 99

Data intensive science for everyone.

1.8K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add galaxyproject/galaxy
#7

Hail

Similarity 120Trust 93Excellent 100

Cloud-native genomic dataframes and batch computing

1.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add hail-is/hail
#8

Ncbi Genome Download

Similarity 118Trust 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
#9

Scispacy

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 86

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

2.0K starsDec 4, 2025 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add allenai/scispacy
#10

Sarek

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 85

Analysis pipeline to detect germline or somatic variants (pre-processing, variant calling and annotation) from WGS / targeted sequencing

574 starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-scienceNextflowBioinformatics
$ npx skills add nf-core/sarek
#11

Biotite

Similarity 116Trust 86Excellent 87

A comprehensive library for computational molecular biology

958 starsJun 11, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add biotite-dev/biotite
#12

Nextflow

Similarity 115Trust 92Excellent 100

A DSL for data-driven computational pipelines

3.4K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-scienceGroovyBioinformatics
$ npx skills add nextflow-io/nextflow
#13

Fastp

Similarity 115Trust 95Excellent 100

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

ColabFold

Similarity 115Trust 93Excellent 100

Making Protein folding accessible to all!

2.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-scienceJupyter NotebookBioinformatics
$ npx skills add sokrypton/ColabFold
#15

Plantcv

Similarity 115Trust 86Excellent 86

Plant phenotyping with image analysis

798 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add danforthcenter/plantcv
#16

PyDESeq2

Similarity 115Trust 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

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