GPTomics

Designs genomics experiments so technical nuisance variation (batch, lane, plate, flow cell, operator, reagent lot, processing day) is balanced against the biological variable of interest and therefore estimable rather than confounded, using constrained sample-to-batch assignment (designit, OSAT), the confounder/mediator/collider distinction, and the principle that no post-hoc correction recovers a fully confounded design. Covers detecting hidden batches with surrogate variable analysis, a decision table for downstream correction (ComBat-seq, RUVSeq, SVA) whose execution is deferred to differential-expression/batch-correction, and reproducibility metadata. Use when assigning samples to sequencing batches/lanes/plates, avoiding batch-condition confounding, deciding whether a design is salvageable by correction, choosing a correction method, or estimating the number of hidden batches. For the experimental unit, randomization, and blocking concepts see experimental-design/randomization-blocking.

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Identifies non-coding RNAs (tRNA, rRNA, snoRNA, snRNA, riboswitches, sRNAs) using Infernal covariance-model search against Rfam, tRNAscan-SE 2.0 for tRNA, barrnap for rRNA, and ARAGORN for tmRNA, plus the small-RNA-seq boundary for miRNA and the transcript-assembly boundary for lncRNA. Covers the structure-conserved-not-sequence-conserved principle (why BLAST fails), GA-threshold and clan-competition correctness, tRNAscan-SE domain modes and pseudogene flags, rDNA copy-number collapse, and why homology annotation is a recall floor. Use when performing genome-wide ncRNA annotation, choosing the right tool for an RNA class, or interpreting ncRNA counts.

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Detects and removes contamination in genome assemblies via two disjoint workflows - foreign-sequence screening of a single-organism (eukaryote/isolate) assembly with NCBI FCS-GX (GenBank-submission-mandatory), FCS-adaptor, and BlobToolKit blob plots; and MAG/bin quality assessment with CheckM2 plus GUNC (chimerism) plus GTDB-Tk taxonomy, judged against MIMAG. Covers why CheckM2 alone is blind to disjoint-marker chimeras, the FCS-GX RAM wall, organelle/NUMT triage, strain heterogeneity, and the HGT-vs-contamination (tardigrade) trap. Use when screening an assembly for foreign contamination before GenBank submission, assessing MAG completeness/contamination/chimerism, deciding which contigs to remove, or distinguishing real HGT from contaminant contigs.

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Evaluates genome assembly quality across the three orthogonal axes - contiguity (QUAST auN/NG50/NGx, not bare N50), completeness (BUSCO/compleasm gene-space plus Merqury k-mer completeness), and correctness (reference-free Merqury QV, Inspector/CRAQ structural errors, asmgene false-duplication/collapse). Covers why N50 is the most-gamed metric, why QV measured on the polishing reads is circular, distinguishing uncollapsed haplotigs from real WGD, and the EBP/VGP 6.C.Q40 standard. Use when judging whether an assembly is good enough to annotate or publish, comparing assemblers, diagnosing a fragmented or duplicated assembly, or assessing a phased diploid assembly.

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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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Assigns GO terms, Pfam/InterPro domains, KEGG orthologs, EC numbers, and product names to predicted proteins using eggNOG-mapper (orthology), InterProScan (domain signatures), and KofamScan (KEGG), routing specialized functions to dbCAN/antiSMASH/AMRFinderPlus/SignalP. Covers the orthology-vs-domain-vs-homology paradigms, the annotation-error percolation cascade, domain-presence-is-not-function, GO IEA circularity in enrichment, evidence tiering, and bit-score/coverage thresholds. Use when adding functional annotation to predicted genes, choosing between eggNOG-mapper and InterProScan, or judging how much to trust a functional label.

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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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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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Infer transcription factor regulons from single-cell RNA-seq with pySCENIC by combining GRNBoost2 co-expression, cisTarget motif-enrichment pruning, and AUCell per-cell activity scoring. Covers the motif-pruning-as-directionality principle, regulon specificity scoring, run-to-run stability, and database/species matching. Use when identifying TF regulons, scoring TF activity per cell, finding master regulators of cell identity, or comparing regulon activity across conditions. For enhancer-driven multiomic GRNs see multiomics-grn; for bulk inference and VIPER protein-activity see grn-inference.

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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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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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Estimates time-scaled phylogenies, molecular-clock rates, effective reproduction number R_e, and population dynamics from dated pathogen genomes using TreeTime (maximum-likelihood) and BEAST2 (Bayesian; strict/relaxed clocks; coalescent, Bayesian-Skyline, Skygrid, Birth-Death-Skyline, and sampled-ancestor priors; structured coalescent via MASCOT). Covers root-to-tip clock QC via TempEst, date-randomisation tests, recombination masking via Gubbins/ClonalFrameML before clock inference for recombining bacteria, BDSKY origin-vs-rootHeight pitfalls, sampling-bias correction, multi-chain convergence diagnostics, and reconciling phylodynamic R_e with case-based R_t. Use when dating outbreak origins, estimating substitution rates, inferring R_e through time, building time-calibrated Nextstrain Augur trees, choosing between strict and relaxed clocks, fitting Birth-Death-Skyline models, diagnosing temporal-signal failure, running MASCOT for structured-population analyses, or using UShER for pandemic-scale placement.

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Build enhancer-driven gene regulatory networks (eGRNs) by integrating single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq using SCENIC+, CellOracle base GRNs, Pando, FigR, DIRECT-NET, TRIPOD, and scMEGA. Covers the accessibility-defines-enhancers principle, peak-to-gene linking and its cell-composition confound, the paired-vs-unpaired decision, and TF-region-gene eRegulon triplets. Use when analyzing 10x multiome or paired/unpaired scRNA+scATAC to infer cis-regulatory GRNs. For RNA-only regulons see scenic-regulons; for in silico TF perturbation see perturbation-simulation.

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Predicts protein-coding gene structures (exons, introns, UTRs) in eukaryotic genomes with BRAKER3 (RNA-seq + protein evidence), BRAKER1/BRAKER2, GALBA (protein-only), Funannotate (fungi), GeMoMa (homology projection), or Helixer/Tiberius (deep-learning ab initio). Covers the evidence-first tool decision, mandatory soft-masking, the training-set-quality-dominates principle, OrthoDB clade-partition selection, the one-isoform-per-locus and missing-UTR traps, merge/split errors, and reference bias against orphan genes. Use when annotating a newly assembled eukaryotic genome, choosing a gene-prediction pipeline based on available evidence, or diagnosing a poor annotation.

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Reads, inspects, and writes Flow Cytometry Standard (FCS) files from conventional, spectral, and mass cytometry (CyTOF), and parses FlowJo/Cytobank/Diva workspaces. Covers FCS 2.0/3.0/3.1/3.2 internals ($PnE linear-vs-log, $DATATYPE, $SPILLOVER vs SPILL vs $COMP, $TIMESTEP), channel/parameter metadata, the silent linearize/truncate defaults, and R (flowCore, flowWorkspace, CytoML) plus Python (FlowKit, readfcs) readers. Use when loading flow or mass cytometry data, mapping detector channels to antibodies, extracting the event matrix, choosing a reader, or bridging FCS to the scanpy/AnnData ecosystem before preprocessing.

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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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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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Defines cell populations in flow and spectral cytometry through manual gates (rectangle, polygon, quadrant, boolean) and reproducible automated gating (openCyto gating templates, flowDensity data-driven thresholds, flowClust model-based gates), organized as a hierarchical GatingSet (flowWorkspace) and round-tripped with FlowJo via CytoML. Covers the canonical gate order (time -> debris -> singlets -> live -> lineage), FMO-vs-isotype boundary setting, gate-order dependence and recompute semantics, rare-event/MRD gating, and per-population statistics. Use when building a gating strategy, automating a manual FlowJo scheme across samples, choosing manual vs data-driven gates, or extracting population frequencies.

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Stores and operates on sparse expression matrices for single-cell and large bulk RNA-seq, covering dgCMatrix/dgRMatrix/dgTMatrix when-each-is-fast, the dgCMatrix (CSC, R) <-> CSR (Python) implicit transpose, AnnData (cells-rows) <-> SingleCellExperiment (cells-cols) orientation flip, HDF5/h5ad vs Zarr cloud-native shift, HDF5SummarizedExperiment + DelayedArray for out-of-memory bulk, scanpy backed mode for large h5ad, the ~10-15% density crossover where dense beats sparse, 10X format proliferation (MTX vs CellRanger H5 vs h5ad), the dense-conversion memory blow-up, and Dask + Zarr for consortium-scale matrices. Use when choosing sparse format, working with single-cell-sized matrices, importing/exporting 10X, debugging R/Python interop transposes, processing matrices too large for RAM, or building cloud-native pipelines.

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Assesses the quality and completeness of a genome annotation with BUSCO (conserved single-copy ortholog recovery), OMArk (proteome completeness, consistency, and contamination), CheckM2 (prokaryotic completeness/contamination), and a gene-set sanity panel (gene count, mono-exonic fraction, protein-length distribution, mRNA:gene ratio, coding density). Covers the assembly-BUSCO-vs-proteome-BUSCO diagnostic, what BUSCO-Duplicated really means, why gene count is a vanity metric, and the QC of transferred annotations. Use when judging whether an annotation is good enough to publish or submit, diagnosing a suspect annotation, or comparing annotation completeness across pipelines.

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Bead-based signal normalization and cross-batch harmonization for CyTOF and high-parameter cytometry - EQ four-element bead normalization of instrument sensitivity drift (CATALYST normCytof, premessa), and reference-anchor cross-batch normalization (CytoNorm, per-cluster quantile splines). Covers the distinction between within-run drift correction and between-batch correction, the mandatory anchor/reference sample, why normalization is per-cluster with many quantiles, and the over-correction risk. Use when correcting CyTOF signal drift, harmonizing multi-batch or multi-site studies, or deciding whether to normalize data versus model batch in the design.

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Aligns sample metadata with count matrices and constructs design matrices for downstream DE, handling the alphabetical-reference-level trap (relevel BEFORE DESeq), LRT reduced-model rules, the interaction-term resultsNames trap, continuous-covariate scaling and splines, repeated measures via duplicateCorrelation or dream, high-cardinality categorical pseudo-singular designs, sample swap detection via XIST/RPS4Y1 expression and somalier/NGSCheckMate genotypes, SABV (sex-as-biological-variable) mandate, Simpson's-paradox collapsing of technical replicates, and the `~ 0 + group` parameterization for clean contrasts. Use when building a design matrix, troubleshooting reversed fold-change direction, encoding paired or repeated-measures designs, detecting sample swaps, deciding sex-as-covariate, or aggregating technical replicates.

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Controls error rates across thousands of simultaneous tests in genomics discovery using false-discovery-rate methods (Benjamini-Hochberg 1995; Benjamini-Yekutieli 2001 for arbitrary dependence; Storey q-value with pi0 estimation; local FDR; independent filtering Bourgon 2010; covariate-weighted FDR via IHW Ignatiadis 2016), plus family-wise error control (Bonferroni, Holm) and the GWAS genome-wide threshold. Covers the FDR-versus-FWER choice as the discovery-versus-confirmatory distinction, the dependence assumptions behind BH (PRDS) versus BY, pi0 estimation, the independent-filtering and false-coverage-rate traps, and reproducibility ranking via IDR (Li 2011). Use when correcting p-values from genome-wide tests, choosing between BH/BY/q-value/Bonferroni, setting an FDR threshold, applying IHW or independent filtering, or interpreting q-values. For confirmatory trials with few pre-specified endpoints (closed testing, graphical/gatekeeping), see clinical-biostatistics/multiplicity-graphical.

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