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Quality control for flow, spectral, and mass cytometry - time-based anomaly cleaning (flowAI, flowCut, PeacoQC, flowClean), margin/boundary event removal, signal-drift detection, dead-cell exclusion, CyTOF Gaussian/DNA/event-length checks, instrument calibration/standardization (MESF, CS&T, peak-2), and batch-level outlier flagging. Use when assessing acquisition quality, choosing a cleaning tool, ordering QC relative to compensation, deciding margin removal before density-based steps, or flagging problematic samples before clustering or differential analysis.

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Decides whether and how to polish a draft genome assembly to raise consensus accuracy (QV) with read-type-matched tools - Racon and medaka (ONT consensus), dorado polish, Polypolish and pypolca (Illumina, repeat-aware), Pilon (legacy short-read), NextPolish/NextPolish2, Hapo-G (haplotype-aware), ntEdit, and DeepPolisher/PEPPER-Margin-DeepVariant for human. Covers the do-not-polish-HiFi rule, the medaka basecaller-model footgun, held-out Merqury QV as the only honest stop signal, and the haplotype-collapse trap. Use when correcting homopolymer indels or residual SNPs in a long-read assembly, deciding if a HiFi assembly needs polishing, or choosing an ONT vs hybrid vs short-read polishing chain.

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Detects acquired antimicrobial-resistance determinants and chromosomal point-mutation resistance in bacterial assemblies using AMRFinderPlus, ResFinder 4.0 (acquired + PointFinder), CARD-RGI, abritAMR, staramr, and species-specific callers (TB-Profiler, Mykrobe). Harmonises cross-tool output via hAMRonization, contextualises determinants with mobile-genetic-element annotation (MOB-suite, PlasmidFinder, MobileElementFinder, ICEberg), predicts phenotype against EUCAST or CLSI breakpoints, and translates calls into WHO GLASS reporting categories. Use when screening clinical or surveillance isolates for AMR, distinguishing acquired vs intrinsic vs point-mutation resistance, calling rpoB / katG / pncA / gyrA / mgrB mutations, reconciling AMRFinderPlus vs RGI vs ResFinder disagreement, contextualising carbapenemases or mcr alleles on plasmids, predicting susceptibility from genotype against the WHO Mtb 2nd-edition catalogue, or building a hAMRonized multi-lab AMR surveillance pipeline.

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Profiles a genome from raw reads BEFORE assembly with a k-mer spectrum (KMC or Jellyfish histogram), then models it with GenomeScope2 to estimate genome size, heterozygosity, repeat content, and ploidy, and Smudgeplot to infer ploidy from heterozygous k-mer pairs (diploid AB vs triploid AAB vs tetraploid AABB). Covers choosing k via Merqury best_k.sh, the k-mer-coverage vs sequencing-coverage confusion, reading het/repeat/contamination/organelle peaks, why noisy ONT must not be used for counting, and how the estimate becomes the NG50 denominator, the Flye -g value, the hifiasm --hom-cov/purge setting, and the 1.5-2x-too-big haplotig sanity check. Use when starting any de novo assembly, deciding whether short reads can work, estimating genome size for an unknown organism, diagnosing ploidy, or sanity-checking an assembly's size against expectation.

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Discovers, classifies, and masks repetitive elements and transposable elements with RepeatModeler2 (de novo family library), RepeatMasker (masking against a library), EDTA (plant/structural TEs), or EarlGrey (auto-curating wrapper), and quantifies TE expression from RNA-seq with TEtranscripts/SQuIRE. Covers de-novo-library-as-curation-project, soft-vs-hard masking, the domesticated-gene over-masking massacre, Dfam-vs-RepBase, TE classification (Class I/II, family-vs-copy), Kimura repeat landscapes, LAI, and the RNA-seq multimapping problem. Use when masking repeats before gene prediction, building a TE library for a non-model genome, or analyzing transposable-element content or expression.

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Simulate transcription factor perturbation effects on cell state in silico with CellOracle and Dynamo, and predict transcriptional responses to genetic perturbations with GEARS, scGen, and CPA. Covers the direction-not-magnitude principle, local-linear validity, the GRN/velocity error it inherits, baseline discipline (mean and additive baselines), and the validation gap. Use when predicting TF knockout or overexpression effects, ranking driver TFs for fate transitions, or planning perturbation experiments. For GRN construction see multiomics-grn; for experimental Perturb-seq see single-cell/perturb-seq.

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Detects and removes doublets/aggregates from flow, spectral, and mass cytometry before clustering or quantification. Covers FSC-A vs FSC-H singlet discrimination (the Area-Height non-proportionality, not a 1D area gate), FSC-W/SSC width gating, CyTOF Gaussian discrimination parameters (Center/Offset/Width/Residual/Event_length) and DNA intercalator gating, and the residual heterotypic conjugates that survive scatter gating and masquerade as double-positive populations. Use when filtering aggregates before phenotyping, choosing a doublet method for flow vs CyTOF, or diagnosing a suspicious double-positive cluster.

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Transfers gene annotations between genome assemblies via coordinate liftover (UCSC liftOver, CrossMap for same-species version updates) or feature/sequence projection (Liftoff for same/close species, miniprot for protein-level cross-species, TOGA/GeMoMa/CAT for distant clades). Covers the coordinate-vs-projection decision by divergence, why a successful lift is not biological confirmation, reference bias, the silent-dropping of unmapped features, build/PAR/MHC/inversion hazards, and transfer-vs-de-novo validation. Use when annotating a new assembly of a species with an existing reference, harmonizing coordinates across builds, or mapping annotations across related species.

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Assembles haplotype-resolved diploid and telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genomes from PacBio HiFi reads with hifiasm (HiFi-only, Hi-C, or trio phasing) and verkko (HiFi + ultralong ONT for T2T), extracting contigs from GFA and routing phasing QC to k-mer/trio metrics. Covers why a primary assembly is a haplotype mosaic that exists in no cell, partial-vs-full phasing (the .bp. vs .dip. filename convention), the purge-default trap on inbred samples, the --hom-cov coverage-estimate alarm, and verkko-vs-hifiasm for T2T. Use when assembling a diploid eukaryote from HiFi, phasing haplotypes with parents (trio) or Hi-C, deciding whether to chase T2T, or diagnosing switch errors invisible to N50/BUSCO/QV.

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Analyzes time-series and longitudinal RNA-seq for differential expression and trajectory structure. Covers DESeq2 LRT with reduced models, time as factor vs continuous vs natural splines, maSigPro (Nueda 2014 for RNA-seq), ImpulseDE2 with explicit impulse-model failure modes, DREAM for repeated measures via linear mixed models, pseudoreplication avoidance, conditional vs marginal modeling, and trajectory clustering with DPGP, Mfuzz (with Schwämmle 2010 fuzzifier estimation), and splines+k-means. Use when modeling time-course or longitudinal expression, choosing factor vs spline, handling repeated measures from the same subject, avoiding pseudoreplication, clustering temporal trajectories, or selecting between dedicated time-course tools and pairwise+LRT.

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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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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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Project gene annotations across genomes using TOGA (Kirilenko 2023 whole-genome-alignment chain-based projection with intactness classification), CESAR 2.0 (Sharma, Schwede & Hiller 2017 codon-aware exon projection), LiftOff (Shumate & Salzberg 2021 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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