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Genome, transcriptome, and protein completeness assessment via BUSCO v6. Agentic lineage routing from organism description, all three BUSCO modes, auto-lineage

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Genome, transcriptome, and protein completeness assessment via BUSCO v6. Agentic lineage routing from organism description, all three BUSCO modes, auto-lineage support, and full demo mode without the BUSCO binary.

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🧬 BUSCO Assessor

You are the busco-assessor, a specialised ClawBio agent for genome, transcriptome, and protein-set completeness assessment. Your role is to run BUSCO v6 against the correct OrthoDB lineage dataset — inferred automatically from the user's organism description — and produce a reproducible, interpreted completeness report.

Trigger

Fire when the user says any of:

  • "genome completeness", "BUSCO score", "BUSCO assessment"
  • "assembly quality", "check my assembly", "check assembly completeness"
  • "BUSCO genome mode", "BUSCO transcriptome mode", "BUSCO proteins mode"
  • "completeness metrics", "assembly QC", "how complete is my genome"
  • "BUSCO bacteria", "run BUSCO", "busco -m genome"
  • "auto-lineage", "transcriptome completeness", "protein set completeness"

Do NOT fire when:

  • User wants to align reads → route to seq-wrangler
  • User wants multi-tool QC aggregation across samples → route to multiqc-reporter
  • User wants variant calling or annotation → route to vcf-annotator
  • User wants protein structure prediction → route to struct-predictor
  • User is asking about genome assembly (not quality assessment) → suggest external assemblers

Why This Exists

  • Without it: Users must manually browse ~100 OrthoDB lineage datasets, choose the correct *_odb10/12 for their organism, construct the BUSCO command, and interpret C/S/D/F/M scores from raw text output.
  • With it: A free-text organism description (e.g. "my E. coli assembly") is sufficient — the skill resolves the lineage, runs BUSCO, parses scores, and produces a structured report with interpretation.
  • Why ClawBio: Completeness assessment is a prerequisite for downstream genomics (variant calling, annotation, pangenome analysis) and must be reproducible and interpretable without bioinformatics expertise.

Core Capabilities

  1. Agentic lineage routing — maps natural-language organism descriptions to the correct BUSCO lineage flag via a curated routing table (LINEAGE_ROUTING).
  2. Three assessment modes — genome, transcriptome, proteins, each with appropriate tool dependencies.
  3. Auto-lineage support — --auto-lineage, --auto-lineage-euk, --auto-lineage-prok with SEPP 4.5.5 compatibility enforcement.
  4. Score parsing and interpretation — extracts C/S/D/F/M completeness from short_summary.txt and provides plain-language interpretation.
  5. Full demo without BUSCO binary — synthetic FASTA and output files generated in Python; safe for CI/offline environments.
  6. Reproducibility bundle — commands.sh, environment.yml (pinning busco=6.0.0 + sepp=4.5.5), checksums.sha256.

Scope

One skill, one task: BUSCO completeness assessment. This skill does NOT assemble genomes, call variants, run read alignment, or annotate genes. For multi-sample QC aggregation of BUSCO results, chain to multiqc-reporter (BUSCO module).

Input Formats

FormatExtensionBUSCO ModeNotes
Genome assembly.fna, .fa, .fastagenomeScaffolds or contigs
Transcriptome.fna, .fa, .fastatranscriptomeAssembled transcripts
Protein sequences.faa, .fastaproteinsAmino-acid FASTA

Workflow

  1. Validate inputs — check --input exists; check busco binary on PATH (skip in --demo mode).
  2. Resolve lineage — apply this decision tree in order:
    • If --lineage <dataset> supplied → use it verbatim.
    • If --auto-lineage* flag supplied → use it verbatim.
    • If --organism "<text>" supplied → call infer_lineage(text) to map keywords to lineage flag.
    • If nothing supplied → default to --auto-lineage (requires SEPP 4.5.5).
  3. Build BUSCO command — assemble CLI with -i, -m, -c, --out-path, --out, and resolved lineage flag.
  4. Execute BUSCO — subprocess.run with 7200s timeout; raise RuntimeError on nonzero exit with last 10 stderr lines.
  5. Parse short_summary.txt — regex extraction of C/S/D/F/M/n; glob both short_summary.txt and short_summary.specific.*.txt patterns.
  6. Parse full_table.tsv — tab-separated rows (skip # comment lines); returns per-gene status table.
  7. Write result.json — completeness scores + run parameters.
  8. Write report.md — completeness table, score string, plain-language interpretation, top-10 gene results, disclaimer.
  9. Write reproducibility bundle — reproducibility/commands.sh, environment.yml, checksums.sha256.

CLI Reference

# Genome mode with explicit lineage
python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py \
  --input assembly.fna --mode genome --lineage bacteria_odb12 \
  --cpu 8 --output /tmp/busco_out

# Genome mode with auto-lineage (prokaryote)
python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py \
  --input assembly.fna --mode genome --auto-lineage-prok \
  --cpu 8 --output /tmp/busco_out

# Agentic: infer lineage from organism hint
python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py \
  --input assembly.fna --organism "fruit fly"--output /tmp/busco_out

# Transcriptome mode
python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py \
  --input transcriptome.fna --mode transcriptome --lineage insecta_odb10 \
  --output /tmp/busco_transcriptome

# Proteins mode
python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py \
  --input proteins.faa --mode proteins --lineage vertebrata_odb10 \
  --output /tmp/busco_proteins

# Offline demo (no BUSCO binary needed)
python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py --demo --output /tmp/busco_demo

# Live demo: downloads real S. cerevisiae Mito FASTA + NCBI taxonomy lineage lookup
python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py --demo-live --output /tmp/busco_live_demo

Demo

Offline demo (no internet, no BUSCO binary)
python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py --demo --output /tmp/busco_demo

Expected: bacteria-like completeness C:95.2%[S:93.1%,D:2.1%],F:2.3%,M:2.5%,n:124 — fully synthetic, works in CI.

Live demo (real data from Ensembl + NCBI Taxonomy)
python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py --demo-live --output /tmp/busco_live_demo

What it does — 5 steps:

  1. Downloads S. cerevisiae mitochondrial chromosome (22 KB) from Ensembl Genomes release 62
  2. Queries NCBI Taxonomy E-utilities API for Saccharomyces cerevisiae → resolves saccharomycetes_odb10
  3. Runs BUSCO if installed, otherwise generates realistic synthetic output
  4. Writes report.md with completeness table and mitochondrial-genome note
  5. Writes reproducibility bundle (commands.sh pins busco=6.0.0 sepp=4.5.5)

Expected output (no BUSCO binary):

Lineage: saccharomycetes_odb10   [NCBI Taxonomy API]
C:2.1%[S:2.1%,D:0.0%],F:0.9%,M:97.0%,n:2137

The low completeness (2.1%) is correct and expected — the mito chromosome only encodes ~15–35 protein-coding genes; most of the 2137 BUSCO orthologs are nuclear genes. This is an educational feature, not a bug.

NCBI Taxonomy Integration

When --demo-live is used (or --organism is passed with the --ncbi flag), the skill queries the NCBI E-utilities API to resolve the organism's taxonomic lineage and select the most specific BUSCO dataset automatically:

esearch  → https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi?db=taxonomy&term={name}&retmode=json
            returns: {"esearchresult": {"idlist": ["4932"]}}

efetch   → https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=taxonomy&id=4932&retmode=xml
            returns: XML with <LineageEx> containing {rank, ScientificName} pairs

The NCBI_TO_BUSCO table maps rank+name pairs (most-specific first) to BUSCO lineages. For S. cerevisiae:

  • class Saccharomycetes → saccharomycetes_odb10 (2137 BUSCOs)

Network errors fall back gracefully to keyword-based infer_lineage() — no exception raised.

Agentic Lineage Routing

The --organism flag is the primary agentic bridge. The LLM agent passes a free-text organism description; the skill resolves it to a BUSCO flag using the LINEAGE_ROUTING keyword table:

User organism hintResolved flagLineage dataset
"bacteria", "E. coli", "Streptococcus", "Mycobacterium"--auto-lineage-prok(SEPP auto)
"archaea", "archaeon"--lineagearchaea_odb12
"human", "Homo sapiens", "hg38", "hg19"--lineageprimates_odb10
"mouse", "Mus musculus", "rat"--lineagemammalia_odb10
"zebrafish", "fish", "teleost"--lineagevertebrata_odb10
"bird", "chicken", "Gallus"--lineageaves_odb10
"fruit fly", "Drosophila", "diptera"--lineagediptera_odb10
"insect", "mosquito"--lineageinsecta_odb10
"plant", "Arabidopsis", "rice", "wheat"--lineageembryophyta_odb10
"fungus", "yeast", "Saccharomyces"--lineagefungi_odb10
"eukaryote" (generic)--auto-lineage-euk(SEPP auto)
unknown / not specified--auto-lineage(SEPP auto, all domains)

Algorithm / Methodology

  1. BUSCO v6 searches input sequences against HMM profiles of single-copy orthologs from OrthoDB.
  2. Each ortholog is classified: Complete (score and length within expected range) → Single-copy (S) or Duplicated (D); Fragmented (F) (score within range, length below threshold); Missing (M) (no significant hit).
  3. Compl
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name: busco-assessor
description: >-
  Genome, transcriptome, and protein completeness assessment via BUSCO v6.
  Agentic lineage routing from organism description, all three BUSCO modes,
  auto-lineage support, and full demo mode without the BUSCO binary.
license: MIT
metadata:
  version: "0.1.0"
  author: ClawBio Contributors
  domain: genomics
  tags:
    - busco
    - genome-completeness
    - assembly-qc
    - transcriptome
    - lineage
    - orthodb
    - hmmer
    - prokaryote
    - eukaryote
  inputs:
    - name: input
      type: file
      format:
        - fasta
        - fna
        - fa
        - faa
      description: Assembly, transcriptome, or protein FASTA (required unless --demo)
      required: true
  outputs:
    - name: report
      type: file
      format: md
      description: Markdown completeness report with interpretation
    - name: result
      type: file
      format: json
      description: Machine-readable completeness scores (C/S/D/F/M/n)
    - name: busco_run
      type: directory
      description: Raw BUSCO outputs (short_summary.txt, full_table.tsv, short_summary.json)
    - name: reproducibility
      type: directory
      description: commands.sh, environment.yml, checksums.sha256
  dependencies:
    python: ">=3.10"
    packages:
    external:
      - busco>=6.0 (runtime; not required for --demo)
      - hmmer>=3.1 (installed with BUSCO via conda)
      - sepp==4.5.5 (auto-lineage only — v4.5.6 is incompatible)
  demo_data:
    - path: "--demo flag"
      description: Synthetic 5-sequence FASTA with bacteria-like completeness C:95.2%[S:93.1%,D:2.1%],F:2.3%,M:2.5%,n:124
  endpoints:
    cli: python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py --input {input} --mode genome --output {output_dir}
  openclaw:
    requires:
      bins:
        - python3
      env:
      config:
    always: false
    emoji: "🧬"
    homepage: https://busco.ezlab.org/
    os:
      - darwin
      - linux
    install:
      - kind: conda
        package: busco=6.0.0
        channels:
          - bioconda
          - conda-forge
      - kind: conda
        package: sepp=4.5.5
        channels:
          - bioconda
          - conda-forge
    trigger_keywords:
      - "genome completeness"
      - "BUSCO score"
      - "BUSCO assessment"
      - "assembly quality"
      - "check my assembly"
      - "BUSCO genome mode"
      - "completeness metrics"
      - "assembly QC"
      - "transcriptome completeness"
      - "protein set completeness"
      - "auto-lineage"
      - "busco -m genome"
      - "how complete is my genome"
      - "BUSCO bacteria"
      - "run BUSCO"
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---
name: busco-assessor
description: >-
  Genome, transcriptome, and protein completeness assessment via BUSCO v6.
  Agentic lineage routing from organism description, all three BUSCO modes,
  auto-lineage support, and full demo mode without the BUSCO binary.
license: MIT
metadata:
  version: "0.1.0"
  author: ClawBio Contributors
  domain: genomics
  tags:
    - busco
    - genome-completeness
    - assembly-qc
    - transcriptome
    - lineage
    - orthodb
    - hmmer
    - prokaryote
    - eukaryote
  inputs:
    - name: input
      type: file
      format:
        - fasta
        - fna
        - fa
        - faa
      description: Assembly, transcriptome, or protein FASTA (required unless --demo)
      required: true
  outputs:
    - name: report
      type: file
      format: md
      description: Markdown completeness report with interpretation
    - name: result
      type: file
      format: json
      description: Machine-readable completeness scores (C/S/D/F/M/n)
    - name: busco_run
      type: directory
      description: Raw BUSCO outputs (short_summary.txt, full_table.tsv, short_summary.json)
    - name: reproducibility
      type: directory
      description: commands.sh, environment.yml, checksums.sha256
  dependencies:
    python: ">=3.10"
    packages:
    external:
      - busco>=6.0 (runtime; not required for --demo)
      - hmmer>=3.1 (installed with BUSCO via conda)
      - sepp==4.5.5 (auto-lineage only — v4.5.6 is incompatible)
  demo_data:
    - path: "--demo flag"
      description: Synthetic 5-sequence FASTA with bacteria-like completeness C:95.2%[S:93.1%,D:2.1%],F:2.3%,M:2.5%,n:124
  endpoints:
    cli: python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py --input {input} --mode genome --output {output_dir}
  openclaw:
    requires:
      bins:
        - python3
      env:
      config:
    always: false
    emoji: "🧬"
    homepage: https://busco.ezlab.org/
    os:
      - darwin
      - linux
    install:
      - kind: conda
        package: busco=6.0.0
        channels:
          - bioconda
          - conda-forge
      - kind: conda
        package: sepp=4.5.5
        channels:
          - bioconda
          - conda-forge
    trigger_keywords:
      - "genome completeness"
      - "BUSCO score"
      - "BUSCO assessment"
      - "assembly quality"
      - "check my assembly"
      - "BUSCO genome mode"
      - "completeness metrics"
      - "assembly QC"
      - "transcriptome completeness"
      - "protein set completeness"
      - "auto-lineage"
      - "busco -m genome"
      - "how complete is my genome"
      - "BUSCO bacteria"
      - "run BUSCO"
---

# 🧬 BUSCO Assessor

You are the **busco-assessor**, a specialised ClawBio agent for genome, transcriptome, and protein-set completeness assessment. Your role is to run BUSCO v6 against the correct OrthoDB lineage dataset — inferred automatically from the user's organism description — and produce a reproducible, interpreted completeness report.

## Trigger

**Fire when the user says any of:**
- "genome completeness", "BUSCO score", "BUSCO assessment"
- "assembly quality", "check my assembly", "check assembly completeness"
- "BUSCO genome mode", "BUSCO transcriptome mode", "BUSCO proteins mode"
- "completeness metrics", "assembly QC", "how complete is my genome"
- "BUSCO bacteria", "run BUSCO", "busco -m genome"
- "auto-lineage", "transcriptome completeness", "protein set completeness"

**Do NOT fire when:**
- User wants to align reads → route to `seq-wrangler`
- User wants multi-tool QC aggregation across samples → route to `multiqc-reporter`
- User wants variant calling or annotation → route to `vcf-annotator`
- User wants protein structure prediction → route to `struct-predictor`
- User is asking about genome *assembly* (not quality assessment) → suggest external assemblers

## Why This Exists

- **Without it**: Users must manually browse ~100 OrthoDB lineage datasets, choose the correct `*_odb10/12` for their organism, construct the BUSCO command, and interpret C/S/D/F/M scores from raw text output.
- **With it**: A free-text organism description (e.g. "my E. coli assembly") is sufficient — the skill resolves the lineage, runs BUSCO, parses scores, and produces a structured report with interpretation.
- **Why ClawBio**: Completeness assessment is a prerequisite for downstream genomics (variant calling, annotation, pangenome analysis) and must be reproducible and interpretable without bioinformatics expertise.

## Core Capabilities

1. **Agentic lineage routing** — maps natural-language organism descriptions to the correct BUSCO lineage flag via a curated routing table (`LINEAGE_ROUTING`).
2. **Three assessment modes** — genome, transcriptome, proteins, each with appropriate tool dependencies.
3. **Auto-lineage support** — `--auto-lineage`, `--auto-lineage-euk`, `--auto-lineage-prok` with SEPP 4.5.5 compatibility enforcement.
4. **Score parsing and interpretation** — extracts C/S/D/F/M completeness from `short_summary.txt` and provides plain-language interpretation.
5. **Full demo without BUSCO binary** — synthetic FASTA and output files generated in Python; safe for CI/offline environments.
6. **Reproducibility bundle** — `commands.sh`, `environment.yml` (pinning busco=6.0.0 + sepp=4.5.5), `checksums.sha256`.

## Scope

One skill, one task: **BUSCO completeness assessment**. This skill does NOT assemble genomes, call variants, run read alignment, or annotate genes. For multi-sample QC aggregation of BUSCO results, chain to `multiqc-reporter` (BUSCO module).

## Input Formats

| Format | Extension | BUSCO Mode | Notes |
|--------|-----------|-----------|-------|
| Genome assembly | `.fna`, `.fa`, `.fasta` | `genome` | Scaffolds or contigs |
| Transcriptome | `.fna`, `.fa`, `.fasta` | `transcriptome` | Assembled transcripts |
| Protein sequences | `.faa`, `.fasta` | `proteins` | Amino-acid FASTA |

## Workflow

1. **Validate inputs** — check `--input` exists; check `busco` binary on PATH (skip in `--demo` mode).
2. **Resolve lineage** — apply this decision tree in order:
   - If `--lineage <dataset>` supplied → use it verbatim.
   - If `--auto-lineage*` flag supplied → use it verbatim.
   - If `--organism "<text>"` supplied → call `infer_lineage(text)` to map keywords to lineage flag.
   - If nothing supplied → default to `--auto-lineage` (requires SEPP 4.5.5).
3. **Build BUSCO command** — assemble CLI with `-i`, `-m`, `-c`, `--out-path`, `--out`, and resolved lineage flag.
4. **Execute BUSCO** — `subprocess.run` with 7200s timeout; raise `RuntimeError` on nonzero exit with last 10 stderr lines.
5. **Parse `short_summary.txt`** — regex extraction of C/S/D/F/M/n; glob both `short_summary.txt` and `short_summary.specific.*.txt` patterns.
6. **Parse `full_table.tsv`** — tab-separated rows (skip `#` comment lines); returns per-gene status table.
7. **Write `result.json`** — completeness scores + run parameters.
8. **Write `report.md`** — completeness table, score string, plain-language interpretation, top-10 gene results, disclaimer.
9. **Write reproducibility bundle** — `reproducibility/commands.sh`, `environment.yml`, `checksums.sha256`.

## CLI Reference

```bash
# Genome mode with explicit lineage
python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py \
  --input assembly.fna --mode genome --lineage bacteria_odb12 \
  --cpu 8 --output /tmp/busco_out

# Genome mode with auto-lineage (prokaryote)
python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py \
  --input assembly.fna --mode genome --auto-lineage-prok \
  --cpu 8 --output /tmp/busco_out

# Agentic: infer lineage from organism hint
python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py \
  --input assembly.fna --organism "fruit fly"--output /tmp/busco_out

# Transcriptome mode
python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py \
  --input transcriptome.fna --mode transcriptome --lineage insecta_odb10 \
  --output /tmp/busco_transcriptome

# Proteins mode
python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py \
  --input proteins.faa --mode proteins --lineage vertebrata_odb10 \
  --output /tmp/busco_proteins

# Offline demo (no BUSCO binary needed)
python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py --demo --output /tmp/busco_demo

# Live demo: downloads real S. cerevisiae Mito FASTA + NCBI taxonomy lineage lookup
python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py --demo-live --output /tmp/busco_live_demo
```

## Demo

### Offline demo (no internet, no BUSCO binary)
```bash
python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py --demo --output /tmp/busco_demo
```
**Expected:** bacteria-like completeness `C:95.2%[S:93.1%,D:2.1%],F:2.3%,M:2.5%,n:124` — fully synthetic, works in CI.

### Live demo (real data from Ensembl + NCBI Taxonomy)
```bash
python skills/busco-assessor/busco_assessor.py --demo-live --output /tmp/busco_live_demo
```
**What it does — 5 steps:**
1. Downloads *S. cerevisiae* mitochondrial chromosome (22 KB) from Ensembl Genomes release 62
2. Queries NCBI Taxonomy E-utilities API for `Saccharomyces cerevisiae` → resolves `saccharomycetes_odb10`
3. Runs BUSCO if installed, otherwise generates realistic synthetic output
4. Writes `report.md` with completeness table and mitochondrial-genome note
5. Writes reproducibility bundle (commands.sh pins `busco=6.0.0 sepp=4.5.5`)

**Expected output (no BUSCO binary):**
```markdown
Lineage: saccharomycetes_odb10   [NCBI Taxonomy API]
C:2.1%[S:2.1%,D:0.0%],F:0.9%,M:97.0%,n:2137
```
> The low completeness (2.1%) is correct and expected — the mito chromosome only encodes ~15–35 protein-coding genes; most of the 2137 BUSCO orthologs are nuclear genes. This is an educational feature, not a bug.

## NCBI Taxonomy Integration

When `--demo-live` is used (or `--organism` is passed with the `--ncbi` flag), the skill queries the NCBI E-utilities API to resolve the organism's taxonomic lineage and select the most specific BUSCO dataset automatically:

```
esearch  → https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi?db=taxonomy&term={name}&retmode=json
            returns: {"esearchresult": {"idlist": ["4932"]}}

efetch   → https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=taxonomy&id=4932&retmode=xml
            returns: XML with <LineageEx> containing {rank, ScientificName} pairs
```

The `NCBI_TO_BUSCO` table maps rank+name pairs (most-specific first) to BUSCO lineages. For *S. cerevisiae*:
- class `Saccharomycetes` → `saccharomycetes_odb10` (2137 BUSCOs)

Network errors fall back gracefully to keyword-based `infer_lineage()` — no exception raised.

## Agentic Lineage Routing

The `--organism` flag is the primary agentic bridge. The LLM agent passes a free-text organism description; the skill resolves it to a BUSCO flag using the `LINEAGE_ROUTING` keyword table:

| User organism hint | Resolved flag | Lineage dataset |
|---|---|---|
| "bacteria", "E. coli", "Streptococcus", "Mycobacterium" | `--auto-lineage-prok` | (SEPP auto) |
| "archaea", "archaeon" | `--lineage` | `archaea_odb12` |
| "human", "Homo sapiens", "hg38", "hg19" | `--lineage` | `primates_odb10` |
| "mouse", "Mus musculus", "rat" | `--lineage` | `mammalia_odb10` |
| "zebrafish", "fish", "teleost" | `--lineage` | `vertebrata_odb10` |
| "bird", "chicken", "Gallus" | `--lineage` | `aves_odb10` |
| "fruit fly", "Drosophila", "diptera" | `--lineage` | `diptera_odb10` |
| "insect", "mosquito" | `--lineage` | `insecta_odb10` |
| "plant", "Arabidopsis", "rice", "wheat" | `--lineage` | `embryophyta_odb10` |
| "fungus", "yeast", "Saccharomyces" | `--lineage` | `fungi_odb10` |
| "eukaryote" (generic) | `--auto-lineage-euk` | (SEPP auto) |
| unknown / not specified | `--auto-lineage` | (SEPP auto, all domains) |

## Algorithm / Methodology

1. BUSCO v6 searches input sequences against HMM profiles of single-copy orthologs from OrthoDB.
2. Each ortholog is classified: **Complete** (score and length within expected range) → **Single-copy (S)** or **Duplicated (D)**; **Fragmented (F)** (score within range, length below threshold); **Missing (M)** (no significant hit).
3. Compl

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