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Identify recurrent and driver copy number alterations across a tumor cohort with GISTIC2 (G-score, Ziggurat deconstruction, focal vs broad/arm-level analysis, q-values from permutation) and quantify copy-number signatures with the Steele 2022 COSMIC framework and the Drews 2022 CINSignatures framework. Covers driver-gene localization from recurrence peaks, distinguishing focal drivers from arm-level passengers, and the caller-sensitivity caveats of copy-number signatures. Use when finding recurrently amplified or deleted regions in a cohort, localizing driver genes, separating focal from broad events, running GISTIC2, or extracting copy-number mutational signatures.

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Detect somatic and germline copy number variants from targeted, exome, and whole-genome sequencing with CNVkit, a read-depth caller that combines on-target and off-target (antitarget) coverage. Covers panel-of-normals construction, flat-reference tumor-only calling, hybrid/amplicon/WGS modes, CBS vs HMM segmentation selection, purity-aware integer calling, and reconciliation against GATK and allele-specific callers. Use when calling CNVs from hybrid-capture panels or exomes, deciding whether CNVkit (depth-only) is the right tool versus an allele-specific caller, building a panel of normals, diagnosing flat-reference false positives, or interpreting log2 ratios into copy-number states.

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Visualize copy number profiles, segments, allele-specific tracks, and cohort patterns from CNVkit, GATK, ASCAT, FACETS, Sequenza, and other callers. Covers genome-wide and per-chromosome log2 scatter plots, B-allele-frequency/minor-allele-fraction tracks, ideograms, cohort heatmaps, circos views, and caller-native plots. Use when creating publication CNV figures, choosing which plot answers a given question, diagnosing a wrong diploid baseline visually, displaying loss of heterozygosity, or deciding what depth-only plots cannot reveal.

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Infer integer allele-specific copy number, tumor purity, and ploidy from tumor sequencing by jointly modeling read depth (logR) and B-allele frequency (BAF) with ASCAT, Sequenza, FACETS, PURPLE, and PureCN (tumor-only). Covers the purity-ploidy identifiability problem, the diploid-baseline (dipLogR) anchor, major/minor copy number, loss of heterozygosity, sunrise/contour fit diagnostics, and reconciliation of conflicting fits. Use when tumor analysis needs absolute copy number rather than relative log2, when estimating purity and ploidy, calling LOH or copy-neutral LOH, resolving whole-genome doubling, running tumor-only allele-specific calling, or choosing among ASCAT, Sequenza, FACETS, and PureCN.

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Identify direct miRNA-target interactions from AGO HITS-CLIP, AGO-CLEAR-CLIP (chimeric reads), HEAP (Halo-Ago2 mouse), chimeric eCLIP / miR-eCLIP (deep miRNA-target profiling), or CLASH using chimeric-read processing pipelines, seed-pairing analysis, and 3' auxiliary pairing rules. Use when distinguishing direct miRNA targets from indirect, integrating CLIP-derived target maps with TargetScan / miRDB / DIANA predictions, applying canonical 7mer-8mer seed matching with 3' UTR context, or recovering miRNA-mRNA chimeras at scale.

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Annotate CLIP-seq peaks or crosslink sites to RNA features (5'UTR, CDS, 3'UTR, intron, splice junction, snoRNA, tRNA, ncRNA, repeat elements) with ChIPseeker, RCAS, RBP-Maps (Yeo splicing regulatory maps), and bedtools, applying feature-priority hierarchies, transcript-context resolution, and metagene aggregation. Use when characterizing where in transcripts an RBP binds, comparing peak distribution across regions, generating splicing-regulatory maps relative to alternative-splicing events, or distinguishing exonic vs intronic vs UTR binding.

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Classify constitutional (germline) copy number variants for clinical reporting using the 2019 ACMG/ClinGen technical standards points-based framework, with ClassifyCNV and AnnotSV for semi-automated scoring. Covers the separate copy-number-loss and copy-number-gain rubrics, the five-tier classification, ClinGen haploinsufficiency/triplosensitivity and dosage-sensitive regions, de novo and segregation evidence, and population-frequency benign evidence. Use when assigning pathogenic/likely-pathogenic/VUS/likely-benign/benign to a constitutional CNV, scoring a CNV against ACMG/ClinGen criteria, or distinguishing the automatable evidence from the case-specific evidence requiring manual input.

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Profiles RNA-binding protein targets without antibody or UV crosslinking using STAMP (APOBEC1-RBP fusion, C-to-U editing), scSTAMP (single-cell), TRIBE/HyperTRIBE (ADAR-RBP, A-to-I editing), DART-seq (APOBEC1-YTH for m6A), or Bullseye/SAILOR edit-site detection pipelines. Use when antibody is unavailable or specificity is doubtful, when single-cell RBP profiling is needed (scSTAMP), or when in vivo RBP profiling without UV is preferred.

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Project gene annotations across genomes using TOGA (Kirilenko 2023 whole-genome-alignment chain-based projection with intactness classification), CESAR 2.0 (Sharma & Hiller 2017 codon-aware exon projection), LiftOff (Shumate & Salzberg 2020 reference-based annotation transfer), Liftover (UCSC), GeMoMa (Keilwagen 2019 evidence-based projection), and Comparative Annotation Toolkit (CAT). Use when transferring annotations from a well-annotated reference to query genome(s), classifying gene-loss vs gene-intact across many genomes at scale, building Zoonomia-style comparative annotations across hundreds of mammals or birds (Kirilenko 2023), detecting pseudogenization, projecting alternative isoforms, or selecting between WGA-anchored (TOGA) vs ortholog-based (LiftOff) annotation transfer strategies.

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Compute genome-to-genome distances (ANI, AAI, dDDH, k-mer Mash) and assign taxonomic classifications using skani (Shaw 2023), FastANI (Jain 2018), pyani / pyANI ANIb / ANIm, OrthoANI (Lee 2016), AAI (amino-acid identity), dDDH via TYGS / GGDC, GTDB-Tk (Chaumeil 2020 standard prokaryote taxonomy), and Mash MinHash (Ondov 2016). Use when delineating prokaryote species (95% ANI threshold; Jain 2018 Nat Commun 9:5114), assigning genomes to GTDB taxonomy with ANI radius, computing genome similarity matrices for clustering, classifying archaea, evaluating MAG (metagenome-assembled genome) species assignment, applying skani for fast metagenomic ANI screening, or reconciling 16S rRNA-based taxonomy with whole-genome ANI.

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Detect horizontal gene transfer (HGT / LGT) using compositional methods (GC%, codon usage, tetranucleotide z-scores via SIGI-HMM, AlienHunter, IslandViewer 4, IslandPath-DIMOB), phylogenetic-incongruence methods (AvP, HGTphyloDetect, ALE / GeneRax / AleRax reconciliation, RANGER-DTL), and BLAST-distribution methods (HGTector v2, DarkHorse, Alien Index). Use when screening prokaryote genomes for genomic islands and HGT events, distinguishing HGT from incomplete lineage sorting / differential gene loss / hybridization, mapping donor lineages via phylogenetic placement, separating eukaryotic HGT from contamination, ruling out gBGC as a false signal, or quantifying DTL rates with ALE/GeneRax on bacterial trees.

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Build whole-genome alignments using Progressive Cactus (Armstrong 2020 reference-free clade-level WGA), Minigraph-Cactus (Hickey 2024 pangenome-aware), LASTZ chain/net (UCSC pipeline), MUMmer4 (Marçais 2018 pairwise), minimap2 -x asm5/10/20 (Li 2018 fast pairwise), AnchorWave (Song 2022 WGD-aware), and Mauve / progressiveMauve (bacterial). Operates the HAL toolkit (Hickey 2013) for downstream extraction including halSynteny, halLiftover, halBranchMutations, and hal2maf. Use when constructing multi-species alignments for comparative-annotation projection (TOGA), synteny detection, conservation analyses (phyloP / PhastCons), or pangenome graph construction; selecting between reference-free (Cactus) and reference-anchored (LASTZ chains/nets) approaches; tuning sensitivity for closely vs distantly related genomes; or producing HAL files for genome-wide downstream tools.

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Preprocess CLIP-seq reads (eCLIP, iCLIP, iCLIP2, iCLIP3, irCLIP, PAR-CLIP, FLASH) with protocol-specific UMI extraction, adapter trimming, length filtering, and post-alignment PCR-duplicate collapse. Use when raw CLIP FASTQ must be turned into deduplicated, crosslink-preserving BAM input for peak calling; choosing between two-pass and single-pass adapter trimming; deciding minimum read length; or mapping UMI patterns to specific eCLIP/iCLIP/iCLIP2/iCLIP3 library preps.

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Resolve the architecture of focal oncogene amplifications — extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA), breakage-fusion-bridge (BFB) cycles, homogeneously staining regions (HSR), and linear amplification — from whole-genome sequencing with AmpliconArchitect, the AmpliconSuite pipeline, and AmpliconClassifier. Covers copy-number seed selection, breakpoint-graph reconstruction, balanced-flow optimization, ecDNA classification, and the limits of depth-only amplification calls. Use when a focal amplification needs structural characterization, when distinguishing ecDNA from chromosomal amplification, suspecting ecDNA-driven oncogene amplification or therapy resistance, or selecting copy-number seeds for amplicon reconstruction.

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Normalize read-depth copy-ratio profiles and segment them into copy-number regions using circular binary segmentation (CBS, DNAcopy), hidden Markov models, HaarSeg, and fused-lasso methods. Covers GC-content, mappability, and replication-timing (wave-artifact) bias correction, panel-of-normals/PCA denoising, diploid-baseline centering, and algorithm selection by sequencing depth and event size. Use when choosing a segmentation algorithm, correcting depth bias, diagnosing oversegmentation or a mis-centered baseline, tuning CBS or HMM parameters, or understanding why a downstream CNV caller produced fragmented or shifted segments.

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Performs 3D shape-based similarity searching using ROCS (OpenEye), USRCAT (ultra-fast), Open3DAlign (RDKit), ESPSim (electrostatic), and ShaEP with explicit handling of Tanimoto-Combo (shape + color), shape vs ECFP4 complementarity, conformer-ensemble searching, alignment optimization, and scaffold hopping. Use when searching for shape-mimicking compounds with different scaffolds, identifying bioisosteric replacements, prospective scaffold hopping, or expanding hit series beyond 2D similarity.

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Predicts ADMET properties using ADMETlab 3.0 (119 endpoints with uncertainty), ADMET-AI, DeepChem MolNet, and chemprop D-MPNN with explicit handling of OECD QSAR principles, applicability domain assessment, calibration, hERG/CYP/AMES gold-standard endpoints, and PAINS / Lipinski / Ro5 / Veber / BBB druglikeness filters. Use when filtering compounds for drug-likeness, prioritizing leads by predicted safety, or building an in-house ADMET QSAR model.

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Detect and adjust for horizontal pleiotropy in two-sample Mendelian randomization by distinguishing uncorrelated (UHP) from correlated (CHP) pleiotropy and choosing among Egger, MR-PRESSO, MR-RAPS, CAUSE, LHC-MR, LCV, MR-Clust, MR-Mix, and contamination-mixture methods. Use when validating an MR causal claim, running the STROBE-MR sensitivity battery, suspecting a shared heritable confounder, working under weak-instrument or polygenic-exposure regimes, or reconciling discordant estimates across robust methods.

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Generates 3D conformer ensembles using RDKit ETKDGv3 with knowledge-enhanced distance geometry, MMFF94/UFF force-field optimization, CREST + GFN2-xTB semi-empirical refinement, and macrocycle-aware torsion preferences. Provides explicit decision rules for single vs ensemble conformer use, RMSD pruning, energy windows, conformer count, and force-field choice. Use when preparing 3D ligands for docking, generating descriptor input for 3D QSAR, or sampling macrocycle/peptide conformational ensembles.

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Resolves GWAS associations to candidate causal variants and credible sets via SuSiE, susie_rss, FINEMAP, CAVIAR, DAP-G, PAINTOR, PolyFun, SuSiEx, MultiSuSiE, and FOCUS. Use when narrowing a GWAS lead SNP to a 95 percent credible set, choosing between in-sample and reference LD, calibrating non-sparse loci with SuSiE-inf or FINEMAP-inf, integrating functional priors via PolyFun, fine-mapping across ancestries with SuSiEx, diagnosing LD mismatch via estimate_s_rss and kriging_rss, handling HLA or long-range LD, or feeding credible sets into coloc.susie for colocalization.

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Performs molecular similarity searching using Tanimoto, Tversky, Dice, and cosine coefficients on bit/count fingerprints with explicit choice rules for symmetric vs asymmetric measures, scaffold-hopping vs lead-optimization regimes, activity-cliff diagnosis, and large-library nearest-neighbor methods (BulkTanimoto, Annoy MHFP6, USRCAT). Use when ranking compounds by structural resemblance to a query, clustering libraries, finding analogs, or diagnosing activity cliffs.

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Trim multiple sequence alignments using ClipKIT, trimAl, BMGE, Divvier, or HMMcleaner with mode selection guidance per downstream goal. Use when removing unreliable columns or contaminating residues before phylogenetic inference, HMM building, or selection analysis.

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View, convert, and understand SAM/BAM/CRAM alignment files using samtools and pysam. Use when inspecting alignments, converting between formats, or understanding alignment file structure.

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