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Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)
5.1K starsJun 8, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
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Single-cell analysis in Python. Scales to >100M cells.
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$ npx skills add scverse/scanpy#3
scikit-bio: a community-driven Python library for bioinformatics, providing versatile data structures, algorithms and educational resources.
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$ npx skills add scikit-bio/scikit-bio#4
A python library for multi omics included bulk, single cell and spatial RNA-seq analysis.
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$ npx skills add omicverse/omicverse#5
Data intensive science for everyone.
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$ npx skills add galaxyproject/galaxy#6
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$ npx skills add hail-is/hail#7
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$ npx skills add kblin/ncbi-genome-download#8
A full spaCy pipeline and models for scientific/biomedical documents.
2.0K starsDec 4, 2025 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add allenai/scispacy#9
A comprehensive library for computational molecular biology
958 starsJun 11, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add biotite-dev/biotite#10
Plant phenotyping with image analysis
798 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add danforthcenter/plantcv#11
A Python implementation of the DESeq2 pipeline for bulk RNA-seq DEA.
753 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add scverse/PyDESeq2#12
Annotated data.
752 starsJun 15, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add scverse/anndata#13
Cutadapt removes adapter sequences from sequencing reads
582 starsJun 8, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add marcelm/cutadapt#14
Open-source bioinformatics components for Dash
569 starsMay 29, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
$ npx skills add plotly/dash-bio#15
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
1.8K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-scienceShellBioinformatics
$ npx skills add bioconda/bioconda-recipes#16
Structural variation caller using third generation sequencing
662 starsMay 18, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonBioinformatics
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