285 skills (repositories by BioTender-max) · sorted by popularity
Unsupervised clustering and cell type identification for flow/mass cytometry. Covers FlowSOM, Phenograph, and CATALYST workflows. Use when discovering cell populations in high-dimensional cytometry data without predefined gates.
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Dimensionality reduction and clustering for single-cell RNA-seq using Seurat (R) and Scanpy (Python). Use for running PCA, computing neighbors, clustering with Leiden/Louvain algorithms, generating UMAP/tSNE embeddings, and visualizing clusters. Use when performing dimensionality reduction and clustering on single-cell data.
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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 cis-regulatory connections (peak-to-peak co-accessibility) from scATAC-seq using Cicero, ArchR getCoAccessibility, or SCENIC+. Use when linking enhancer accessibility to promoter accessibility, identifying enhancer-gene pairs from chromatin alone (without paired RNA), running gene-regulatory inference combining ATAC + RNA, or comparing predicted regulatory contacts against Hi-C/Micro-C ground truth.
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Build weighted gene co-expression networks to identify modules of co-regulated genes and relate them to phenotypes using WGCNA and CEMiTool. Detects hub genes and module-trait relationships from bulk or single-cell expression data. Use when finding co-expression modules, identifying hub genes, or relating gene networks to clinical or experimental variables.
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Test whether two or more traits share a causal variant at a locus using Bayesian colocalization (coloc.abf, coloc.susie, HyPrColoc, moloc, eCAVIAR, SMR/HEIDI, PWCoCo, SharePro). Use when integrating GWAS with eQTL/sQTL/pQTL/mQTL, distinguishing shared causal variants from LD-driven coincidence, handling allelic heterogeneity, choosing between single-causal vs multi-causal methods, picking PP.H4 thresholds, running sensitivity over p12, or harmonising summary statistics for colocalization.
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Select colormaps and qualitative palettes for scientific figures using perceptual-uniformity, color-vision-deficiency safety, and luminance-monotonicity criteria. Covers Crameri scientific colormaps, viridis/cividis/magma, Okabe-Ito categorical, ColorBrewer, and the rainbow/jet critique. Use when choosing palettes for heatmaps, scatter, networks, or any encoding where color carries quantitative or categorical meaning.
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Analyzes community composition using constrained ordination (CCA, RDA, db-RDA), variance partitioning (varpart), indicator species analysis (indicspecies multipatt), and distance-based environmental gradient methods with vegan. Links species composition to environmental explanatory variables. Use when testing how environmental gradients structure species communities, identifying habitat indicator taxa, or partitioning explained variation among predictors. Not for basic unconstrained ordination and PERMANOVA (see microbiome/diversity-analysis).
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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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Infer orthologous genes and gene families across species using OrthoFinder3 (HOG-based phylogenetic orthology), SonicParanoid2, Broccoli, ProteinOrtho, OMA / FastOMA hierarchical orthologous groups, eggNOG-mapper, JustOrthologs, and TOGA whole-genome-alignment orthology. Use when building single-copy ortholog sets for phylogenomics, classifying co-orthologs and in/out-paralogs after gene duplication, propagating functional annotation via orthology with awareness of the ortholog conjecture, distinguishing speciation from duplication via gene-tree species-tree reconciliation, computing Quest-for-Orthologs benchmark performance, or running synteny-aware ortholog detection in WGD-affected lineages.
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Annotate copy number variant segments with overlapping genes, dosage-sensitivity scores, cancer driver databases, population frequencies, and clinical-variant content. Covers bedtools/pybedtools interval intersection, AnnotSV comprehensive annotation and ranking, ClinGen haploinsufficiency/triplosensitivity scoring, gnomAD-SV/DGV frequency filtering, COSMIC Cancer Gene Census, and ClinVar overlap. Use when interpreting which genes a CNV affects, distinguishing the driver gene of a focal event from passengers, filtering against population CNVs, separating whole-gene from partial-gene overlap, or preparing CNVs for clinical classification.
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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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Analyze codon usage, calculate CAI (Codon Adaptation Index), and examine synonymous codon bias using Biopython. Use when analyzing coding sequences for expression optimization or evolutionary analysis.
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Designs and analyzes combinatorial CRISPR screens covering paired-Cas9 (Big Papi, Najm 2018), enhanced AsCas12a multiplex (enCas12a, DeWeirdt 2021), in4mer 4-guide-array Cas12a (Esmaeili Anvar N et al 2024 Nat Commun 15:3577) and the Inzolia paralog-pair library, paralog-buffering detection (Dede 2020 Genome Biol; Thompson 2021 Cell Reports 36:109597), genetic-interaction (GI) scoring as observed_double_LFC minus expected_additive_double_LFC, synthetic-lethal and synthetic-rescue interaction interpretation, the half-of-essentiality buffered by paralogs phenomenon, multiplex screen statistical analysis with MAGeCK MLE interaction terms, and the relationship to single-cell combinatorial Perturb-seq. Use when designing a paralog or pathway-pair screen, choosing between paired-Cas9 (Big Papi) and Cas12a multiplex (Inzolia), interpreting genetic interaction scores, identifying synthetic-lethal targets for drug development, or scaling beyond single-gene CRISPR screens.
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Spillover compensation and data transformation for flow cytometry. Covers compensation matrix calculation, application, and biexponential/arcsinh transforms. Use when correcting spectral overlap between fluorophores or transforming data for analysis.
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Analyzes base-editing screens for variant function. Covers library design (Sanson 2020 GRACE, Hanna 2021 BRCA1/2 SNV scanning, Cuella-Martin 2021), CBE vs ABE chemistry choice (BE3/BE4 vs ABE7.10/ABE8.20/ABE8e), editing-window math (positions 4-8 from PAM-distal end, wider for ABE8e), bystander-edit quantification and the variant-call ambiguity it creates, sgRNA-efficiency filtering before hit calling, indel byproduct interpretation, the substitution-vs-indel diagnostic, variant annotation against ClinVar / COSMIC, and the Broad be-validation-pipeline. Use when designing a BE variant screen, choosing CBE vs ABE for a specific edit, interpreting bystander-confounded hits, distinguishing functional signal from indel artifact, integrating CRISPResso2 output with screen scoring, or deciding BE vs PE for SNV installation.
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End-to-end ATAC-seq workflow from FASTQ files to differential accessibility and TF footprinting. Covers alignment, peak calling with MACS3, QC metrics, and optional TOBIAS footprinting. Use when running end-to-end ATAC-seq analysis from FASTQ to differential accessibility.
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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) with PLINK. Perform case-control and quantitative trait association testing using logistic/linear regression with covariates, generate Manhattan and QQ plots for result visualization. Use when running GWAS or association tests.
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Transfer gene annotations between genome assemblies using Liftoff for same-species annotation liftover and MiniProt for cross-species protein-to-genome alignment. Enables rapid annotation of new assemblies using existing reference annotations. Use when annotating a new assembly of a species with an existing reference annotation or mapping annotations across related species.
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Reconstruct ancestral states at internal phylogenetic nodes for sequences (PAML codeml, IQ-TREE --ancestral, GRASP, FastML), discrete traits (corHMM hidden-rate Markov, ape::ace, phytools::make.simmap stochastic mapping, BayesTraits), and continuous traits (phytools::fastAnc, geiger Brownian/OU, RPANDA). Use when designing constructs for ancestral protein resurrection, tracing trait evolution along a tree, performing stochastic character mapping, testing models of trait evolution (BM vs OU vs EB), inferring ancestral genome content via Dollo or DTL reconciliation, or quantifying ancestral-state uncertainty for downstream comparative analyses.
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Detect antimicrobial resistance genes using AMRFinderPlus, ResFinder, and CARD. Screen isolates and metagenomes for resistance determinants. Use when characterizing resistance profiles in clinical isolates, surveillance samples, or metagenomic data.
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Detect allele-specific chromatin accessibility from ATAC-seq using WASP, GATK ASEReadCounter, or RASQUAL. Use when mapping cis-regulatory genetic variants from heterozygous SNPs, separating cis from trans regulation, building chromatin QTL (caQTL) maps, validating GWAS variant function with allelic imbalance, or detecting reference allele mapping bias before downstream analysis.
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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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Read, write, and convert multiple sequence alignment files using Biopython Bio.AlignIO. Supports Clustal, PHYLIP, Stockholm, FASTA, Nexus, and other alignment formats for phylogenetics and conservation analysis. Use when reading, writing, or converting alignment file formats.
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