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Scanpy alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Scanpy

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

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#1

Anndata

Similarity 171Trust 86Excellent 86

Annotated data.

752 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add scverse/anndata
#2

PyDESeq2

Similarity 131Trust 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
#3

Biopython

Similarity 130Trust 91Excellent 100

Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)

5.1K starsJun 8, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add biopython/biopython
#4

Scikit Bio

Similarity 128Trust 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 128Trust 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

Hail

Similarity 128Trust 93Excellent 100

Cloud-native genomic dataframes and batch computing

1.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add hail-is/hail
#7

Ncbi Genome Download

Similarity 126Trust 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
#8

Scispacy

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 86

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

2.0K starsDec 4, 2025 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add allenai/scispacy
#9

Biotite

Similarity 124Trust 86Excellent 87

A comprehensive library for computational molecular biology

958 starsJun 11, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add biotite-dev/biotite
#10

Plantcv

Similarity 123Trust 86Excellent 86

Plant phenotyping with image analysis

798 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add danforthcenter/plantcv
#11

MLLMCelltype

Similarity 123Trust 86Excellent 85

Cell type annotation for single-cell RNA-seq using multi-LLM consensus

646 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add cafferychen777/mLLMCelltype
#12

Cutadapt

Similarity 122Trust 86Excellent 85

Cutadapt removes adapter sequences from sequencing reads

582 starsJun 8, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add marcelm/cutadapt
#13

Dash Bio

Similarity 122Trust 86Excellent 85

Open-source bioinformatics components for Dash

569 starsMay 29, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add plotly/dash-bio
#14

Sniffles

Similarity 121Trust 82Strong 80

Structural variation caller using third generation sequencing

662 starsMay 18, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add fritzsedlazeck/Sniffles
#15

Redun

Similarity 121Trust 83Strong 79

Yet another redundant workflow engine

591 starsApr 16, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add insitro/redun
#16

Sourmash

Similarity 121Trust 82Strong 80

Quickly search, compare, and analyze genomic and metagenomic data sets.

547 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add sourmash-bio/sourmash

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