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A cross-platform and ultrafast toolkit for FASTA/Q file manipulation
1.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-scienceGoBioinformatics
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$ npx skills add shenwei356/csvtk#3
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$ npx skills add scipipe/scipipe#4
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
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$ npx skills add bioconda/bioconda-recipes#5
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$ npx skills add galaxyproject/galaxy#6
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$ npx skills add biopython/biopython#7
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$ npx skills add crazyhottommy/getting-started-with-genomics-tools-and-resources#8
A DSL for data-driven computational pipelines
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$ npx skills add nextflow-io/nextflow#9
An ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessor (QC/adapters/trimming/filtering/splitting/merging...)
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$ npx skills add OpenGene/fastp#10
Making Protein folding accessible to all!
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$ npx skills add sokrypton/ColabFold#11
Single-cell analysis in Python. Scales to >100M cells.
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$ npx skills add scverse/scanpy#12
A Go package for engineering organisms.
729 starsJun 10, 2026 pushgeo-scienceGoBioinformatics
$ npx skills add bebop/poly#13
MMseqs2: ultra fast and sensitive search and clustering suite
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$ npx skills add soedinglab/MMseqs2#14
A versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences
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$ npx skills add lh3/minimap2#15
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#16
Official code repository for GATK versions 4 and up
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