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scikit-bio: a community-driven Python library for bioinformatics, providing versatile data structures, algorithms and educational resources.
1.2K starsJun 8, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
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Pysam
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.
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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#3
A full spaCy pipeline and models for scientific/biomedical documents.
2.0K starsDec 4, 2025 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add allenai/scispacy#4
Tools to process and analyze deep sequencing data.
761 starsJul 23, 2025 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add deeptools/deepTools#5
A comprehensive library for computational molecular biology
958 starsJun 11, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add biotite-dev/biotite#6
Plant phenotyping with image analysis
798 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add danforthcenter/plantcv#7
A Python implementation of the DESeq2 pipeline for bulk RNA-seq DEA.
753 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add scverse/PyDESeq2#8
Cutadapt removes adapter sequences from sequencing reads
582 starsJun 8, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add marcelm/cutadapt#9
Open-source bioinformatics components for Dash
569 starsMay 29, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add plotly/dash-bio#10
Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)
5.1K starsJun 8, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add biopython/biopython#11
C library for high-throughput sequencing data formats
926 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-scienceCBioinformatics
$ npx skills add samtools/htslib#12
Making Protein folding accessible to all!
2.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-scienceJupyter NotebookBioinformatics
$ npx skills add sokrypton/ColabFold#13
Single-cell analysis in Python. Scales to >100M cells.
2.5K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add scverse/scanpy#14
A versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences
2.2K starsMay 19, 2026 pushgeo-scienceCBioinformatics
$ npx skills add lh3/minimap2#15
Gene cluster comparison figure generator
643 starsDec 22, 2025 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add gamcil/clinker#16
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
1.8K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-scienceShellBioinformatics
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