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$ npx skills add sokrypton/ColabFold#3
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$ npx skills add biopython/biopython#6
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$ npx skills add scikit-bio/scikit-bio#7
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$ npx skills add bioconda/bioconda-recipes#8
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$ npx skills add omicverse/omicverse#9
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$ npx skills add lh3/bioawk#10
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$ npx skills add soedinglab/MMseqs2#11
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$ npx skills add allenai/scispacy#12
A comprehensive library for computational molecular biology
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$ npx skills add biotite-dev/biotite#13
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$ npx skills add pysam-developers/pysam#14
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$ npx skills add openwdl/wdl#15
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$ npx skills add danforthcenter/plantcv#16
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