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MMseqs2 alternatives for AI agents.

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MMseqs2

MMseqs2: ultra fast and sensitive search and clustering suite

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#1

Minimap2

Similarity 120Trust 89Excellent 100

A versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences

2.2K starsMay 19, 2026 pushgeo-scienceCBioinformatics
$ npx skills add lh3/minimap2
#2

Foldseek

Similarity 119Trust 91Excellent 96

Foldseek enables fast and sensitive comparisons of large structure sets.

1.2K starsMay 13, 2026 pushgeo-scienceCBioinformatics
$ npx skills add steineggerlab/foldseek
#3

Hh Suite

Similarity 118Trust 81Promising 67

Remote protein homology detection suite.

622 starsAug 12, 2025 pushgeo-scienceCBioinformatics
$ npx skills add soedinglab/hh-suite
#4

Poly

Similarity 117Trust 86Excellent 86

A Go package for engineering organisms.

729 starsJun 10, 2026 pushgeo-scienceGoBioinformatics
$ npx skills add bebop/poly
#5

GTDBTk

Similarity 117Trust 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
#6

Jcvi

Similarity 116Trust 86Strong 81

Python library to facilitate genome assembly, annotation, and comparative genomics

918 starsMay 2, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add tanghaibao/jcvi
#7

Anvio

Similarity 116Trust 86Strong 84

An analysis and visualization platform for 'omics data

526 starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add merenlab/anvio
#8

Biopython

Similarity 116Trust 91Excellent 100

Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)

5.1K starsJun 8, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add biopython/biopython
#9

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
#10

Vsearch

Similarity 115Trust 82Strong 81

Versatile open-source tool for microbiome analysis

748 starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-scienceC++Bioinformatics
$ npx skills add torognes/vsearch
#11

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
#12

ColabFold

Similarity 115Trust 93Excellent 100

Making Protein folding accessible to all!

2.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-scienceJupyter NotebookBioinformatics
$ npx skills add sokrypton/ColabFold
#13

Scanpy

Similarity 115Trust 93Excellent 100

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

2.5K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add scverse/scanpy
#14

Scikit Bio

Similarity 114Trust 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
#15

Seqkit

Similarity 114Trust 92Excellent 100

A cross-platform and ultrafast toolkit for FASTA/Q file manipulation

1.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-scienceGoBioinformatics
$ npx skills add shenwei356/seqkit
#16

Bwa

Similarity 114Trust 87Strong 73

Burrow-Wheeler Aligner for short-read alignment (see minimap2 for long-read alignment)

1.8K starsMar 22, 2025 pushgeo-scienceCBioinformatics
$ npx skills add lh3/bwa

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