life-sciences plugin
Genomics, single-cell, proteomics, neuroscience and systems biology.
How to install the life-sciences plugin
Run both commands inside Claude Code. The first adds the marketplace once; the second installs the plugin.
/plugin marketplace add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
/plugin install life-sciences@research-agent-skillsWhat's inside life-sciences
33 parts read from the plugin's own files.
Skills 33
Claude loads it when the task matches- 13c-metabolic-flux
Estimates intracellular metabolic fluxes from steady-state carbon-13 isotope-tracing measurements using validated atom maps, mfapy isotope simulation, constrained multistart fitting, and flux-profile diagnostics. Use for 13C-MFA, carbon tracing, mass isotopomer distributions (MDVs/MIDs), positional isotopomers, parallel tracer experiments, and determining whether labeling data constrain a pathway flux. Distinguishes measured-label inference from COBRA flux balance analysis and flags experiments requiring nonstationary MFA.
- alphagenome
Look up precomputed AlphaGenome Atlas effects for any GRCh38 single-nucleotide variant (AVI score with Phred and 18 SHAP feature attributions, plus raw and quantile scores for RNA-seq, DNase, ATAC, ChIP-TF, ChIP-histone, CAGE, PRO-cap, splicing, polyadenylation and contact-map tracks), score variants or scan windows on demand with the AlphaGenome model for human and mouse (variant scoring, in silico mutagenesis, REF-versus-ALT track prediction), and build Atlas website deep links. Use when the user mentions AlphaGenome, AlphaGenome Atlas, AVI or AlphaGenome Variant Impact, DeepMind variant effect prediction, or wants to prioritise or mechanistically interpret non-coding, regulatory, splicing, enhancer, promoter, or chromatin-accessibility effects of SNVs from a VCF, credible set, or region. Research use only; not a clinical tool.
- anndata
Data structure for annotated matrices in single-cell analysis. Use when working with .h5ad files or integrating with the scverse ecosystem. This is the data format skill—for analysis workflows use scanpy; for probabilistic models use scvi-tools; for population-scale queries use cellxgene-census.
- arboreto
Infer gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from gene expression data using scalable algorithms (GRNBoost2, GENIE3). Use when analyzing transcriptomics data (bulk RNA-seq, single-cell RNA-seq) to identify transcription factor-target gene relationships and regulatory interactions. Supports distributed computation for large-scale datasets.
- bids
Organizes, queries, validates, and converts neuroscience and biomedical datasets using the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) standard, covering MRI, PET, EEG, MEG, iEEG, EMG, NIRS, microscopy, motion capture, and behavioral data. Covers PyBIDS (BIDSLayout), the bids-validator, HeuDiConv, dcm2bids, BIDScoin, JSON sidecars, dataset_description.json, events.tsv, participants.tsv, .bidsignore, and derivatives. Use when arranging raw data into BIDS directories and filenames. Use when converting DICOM scans to BIDS. Use when validating a dataset before OpenNeuro or DANDI submission. Use when querying files or sidecar metadata with PyBIDS. Use when writing BIDS derivatives. For extracellular Neuropixels analysis, use neuropixels-analysis instead.
- biopython
Provides Biopython (Bio.Seq, Bio.SeqIO, Bio.Align, Bio.Entrez, Bio.Blast, Bio.PDB, Bio.Phylo, Bio.motifs, Bio.SeqUtils, Bio.Restriction) for sequence handling, file parsing, NCBI access, BLAST, structures, and phylogenetic trees in Python. Reads, writes, and converts FASTA, GenBank, FASTQ, PDB, mmCIF, Newick, and NEXUS files. Use when manipulating or translating DNA, RNA, or protein sequences, converting sequence file formats, fetching records from NCBI via Entrez, running or parsing BLAST searches, doing pairwise or multiple sequence alignment, analyzing PDB structures, or building and editing phylogenetic trees. For quick lookups use gget; for multi-service integration use bioservices.
- bulk-rnaseq
End-to-end bulk RNA-seq orchestrator — takes raw FASTQ reads through QC and trimming (FastQC, fastp/Trim Galore), alignment and quantification (STAR, Salmon, featureCounts), assembles a gene-level counts matrix, then hands off to differential expression (pydeseq2), pathway/GSEA enrichment (pathway-enrichment), and publication figures (scientific-visualization). Use whenever the user has bulk RNA-seq reads or quant output and wants a complete, reproducible differential-expression workflow — e.g. "analyze my RNA-seq", "FASTQ to DESeq2", "run nf-core/rnaseq", "STAR/Salmon quantification", "build a counts matrix for DESeq2", or "go from reads to differentially expressed genes and enriched pathways". Routes between an nf-core/rnaseq (Nextflow) path and a standalone STAR/Salmon path, and covers experimental design, strandedness, and QC gates. For single-cell RNA-seq use the scanpy skill instead.
- cobrapy
Runs constraint-based metabolic modeling with COBRApy (Python, import cobra) on genome-scale models in SBML, JSON, YAML, or MATLAB format. Covers FBA, pFBA, geometric FBA, FVA, flux sampling, gene and reaction knockouts, production envelopes, growth media, gapfilling, and building models. Use when loading or exporting a genome-scale metabolic model. Use when predicting growth or flux distributions with FBA or FVA. Use when screening gene or reaction knockouts. Use when tuning growth media or exchange constraints. Use when gap-filling an infeasible model or checking model consistency. Not for kinetic or ODE-based simulation of metabolism.
- deeptools
Runs deepTools command-line programs on NGS alignment data: bamCoverage and bamCompare for BAM to bigWig/bedGraph with RPGC, CPM, RPKM or BPM normalization, multiBamSummary with plotCorrelation and plotPCA, plotFingerprint, computeMatrix with plotHeatmap and plotProfile, and alignmentSieve with --ATACshift. Use when converting BAM files to normalized coverage tracks. Use when checking ChIP-seq quality or comparing replicates. Use when plotting signal around TSS or peak regions. Use when comparing treatment versus control samples. Use when building ChIP-seq, RNA-seq or ATAC-seq coverage workflows. Not for peak calling or differential expression analysis.
- esm
Covers the EvolutionaryScale/Biohub `esm` Python SDK: ESM3 generative protein design (sequence, structure and function tracks, chain-of-thought), ESMC embeddings, inverse folding, ESMFold2 structure prediction, and hosted Forge/Biohub inference with ESM_API_KEY. Use when generating or completing proteins with ESM3, extracting ESMC embeddings for classification or similarity, folding a sequence or designing sequences from a structure, or choosing between esm3-open, esmc_300m and Forge-hosted models. Use when batching async Forge or Biohub API calls. Not for other protein models such as AlphaFold or generic Hugging Face transformers usage.
- etetoolkit
Analyze, manipulate, compare, annotate, and visualize phylogenetic or other hierarchical trees with ETE 4. Use for Newick/Nexus tree I/O, topology edits and pattern matching, Robinson-Foulds comparisons, gene-tree evolutionary events and reconciliation, NCBI/GTDB taxonomy, SmartView exploration, and publication rendering. Do not use it to infer trees from raw sequences; align sequences and infer a tree first.
- flowio
Read, inspect, and write Flow Cytometry Standard (FCS) 2.0, 3.0, and 3.1 files with FlowIO. Use for low-level FCS metadata and channel inspection, NumPy event extraction, multi-dataset files, table export, and FCS 3.1 creation; use FlowKit for compensation, cytometry transforms, gating, or FlowJo workspaces.
- folklore-variant-evidence
Retrieve ClinGen gene-disease validity assertions for a public gene or disease, and review source-linked public evidence and literature for one supported GRCh38 germline nuclear SNV or simple indel through Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP. Use when a scientific agent must branch deterministically on resolved, ambiguous, not-found, invalid, unsupported, or unavailable variant outcomes; chain a resolved public variant into related literature or publication details; or preserve evidence provenance without accepting patient, phenotype, family, segregation, or private case data.
- geniml
Plans and audits local genomic-interval machine learning workflows with Geniml (0.8.4) and Gtars: validates BED files against chromosome sizes and assembly contracts, plans Region2Vec, scEmbed, and BEDspace runs, checks model, tokenizer, and universe.bed compatibility, and assesses consensus universes (CC, CCF, ML, HMM, assess-universe). Bundled scripts only validate or plan; they do not train. Use when checking BED coordinates, contigs, or assembly before analysis. Use when planning Region2Vec or scEmbed training on tokenized Parquet data. Use when verifying that a checkpoint, config.yaml, and universe match. Use when building or assessing a consensus peak universe. Use when reviewing BEDbase or Hugging Face download risks. Not for general BED manipulation or peak calling; use bedtools or similar tools.
- genomic-intelligence
Predict regulatory features, gene structure, and expression directly from DNA sequence using Genomic Intelligence's hosted transformer DNA language models — no local GPU or model weights. Six tasks over a REST API and a hosted MCP server (keyless public demo): promoter regions, splice donor/acceptor sites, enhancer activity, chromatin state, sequence-to-expression (log TPM), and de-novo gene annotation, plus a composite find-genes-then-predict-expression workflow. Use when the user has a gene symbol, a genomic region, or a DNA/FASTA sequence and wants any of these predictions, mentions Genomic Intelligence, genomicintelligence.ai, api.genomicintelligence.ai, or mcp.genomicintelligence.ai.
- gtars
Inspects and plans work with Gtars, the Rust/Python/CLI toolkit for genomic intervals: BED RegionSet set algebra (reduce, setdiff, intersect, closest, cluster, gaps), overlap counts, consensus peak sets, coverage, tokenizers, fragment processing, and refget/BEDbase stores. Use when merging or comparing BED interval sets, building a consensus or universe from peaks, tokenizing regions for ML models, working with fragment files, or planning refget sequence-collection and BEDbase cache use. Use when checking BED coordinates, contigs, or strand before running gtars. Not for general BAM/VCF processing; use samtools or bedtools for that.
- matchms
No description in the file.
- neurokit2
No description in the file.
- neuropixels-analysis
No description in the file.
- nextflow
No description in the file.
- pacsomatic
No description in the file.
- pathogen-variant-surveillance
No description in the file.
- pathway-enrichment
No description in the file.
- polars-bio
No description in the file.
- pydeseq2
No description in the file.
- pyopenms
No description in the file.
- pysam
No description in the file.
- scanpy
No description in the file.
- scikit-bio
No description in the file.
- scvelo
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- scvi-tools
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- tiledbvcf
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- waypoint-bio
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Using life-sciences in Claude Code
Skills need no command. Claude reads them when your request matches what they describe.
Update, turn off or remove
- Update the plugin (shell)
- claude plugin update life-sciences@research-agent-skills
- Refresh the marketplace
- /plugin marketplace update research-agent-skills
- Turn it off for now
- /plugin disable life-sciences@research-agent-skills
- Remove it
- /plugin uninstall life-sciences@research-agent-skills
Skills in life-sciences
- alphagenomeKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Look up precomputed AlphaGenome Atlas effects for any GRCh38 single-nucleotide variant (AVI score with Phred and 18 SHAP feature attributions, plus raw and quantile scores for RNA-seq, DNase, ATAC, ChIP-TF, ChIP-histone, CAGE, PRO-cap, splicing, polyadenylation and contact-map tracks), score variants or scan windows on demand with the AlphaGenome model for human and mouse (variant scoring, in silico mutagenesis, REF-versus-ALT track prediction), and build Atlas website deep links. Use when the user mentions AlphaGenome, AlphaGenome Atlas, AVI or AlphaGenome Variant Impact, DeepMind variant effect prediction, or wants to prioritise or mechanistically interpret non-coding, regulatory, splicing, enhancer, promoter, or chromatin-accessibility effects of SNVs from a VCF, credible set, or region. Research use only; not a clinical tool.
8 files126stars - anndataKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Data structure for annotated matrices in single-cell analysis. Use when working with .h5ad files or integrating with the scverse ecosystem. This is the data format skill—for analysis workflows use scanpy; for probabilistic models use scvi-tools; for population-scale queries use cellxgene-census.
6 files126stars - biopythonKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Provides Biopython (Bio.Seq, Bio.SeqIO, Bio.Align, Bio.Entrez, Bio.Blast, Bio.PDB, Bio.Phylo, Bio.motifs, Bio.SeqUtils, Bio.Restriction) for sequence handling, file parsing, NCBI access, BLAST, structures, and phylogenetic trees in Python. Reads, writes, and converts FASTA, GenBank, FASTQ, PDB, mmCIF, Newick, and NEXUS files. Use when manipulating or translating DNA, RNA, or protein sequences, converting sequence file formats, fetching records from NCBI via Entrez, running or parsing BLAST searches, doing pairwise or multiple sequence alignment, analyzing PDB structures, or building and editing phylogenetic trees. For quick lookups use gget; for multi-service integration use bioservices.
9 files126stars - cobrapyKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Runs constraint-based metabolic modeling with COBRApy (Python, import cobra) on genome-scale models in SBML, JSON, YAML, or MATLAB format. Covers FBA, pFBA, geometric FBA, FVA, flux sampling, gene and reaction knockouts, production envelopes, growth media, gapfilling, and building models. Use when loading or exporting a genome-scale metabolic model. Use when predicting growth or flux distributions with FBA or FVA. Use when screening gene or reaction knockouts. Use when tuning growth media or exchange constraints. Use when gap-filling an infeasible model or checking model consistency. Not for kinetic or ODE-based simulation of metabolism.
3 files126stars - deeptoolsKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Runs deepTools command-line programs on NGS alignment data: bamCoverage and bamCompare for BAM to bigWig/bedGraph with RPGC, CPM, RPKM or BPM normalization, multiBamSummary with plotCorrelation and plotPCA, plotFingerprint, computeMatrix with plotHeatmap and plotProfile, and alignmentSieve with --ATACshift. Use when converting BAM files to normalized coverage tracks. Use when checking ChIP-seq quality or comparing replicates. Use when plotting signal around TSS or peak regions. Use when comparing treatment versus control samples. Use when building ChIP-seq, RNA-seq or ATAC-seq coverage workflows. Not for peak calling or differential expression analysis.
9 files126stars - etetoolkitKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Analyze, manipulate, compare, annotate, and visualize phylogenetic or other hierarchical trees with ETE 4. Use for Newick/Nexus tree I/O, topology edits and pattern matching, Robinson-Foulds comparisons, gene-tree evolutionary events and reconciliation, NCBI/GTDB taxonomy, SmartView exploration, and publication rendering. Do not use it to infer trees from raw sequences; align sequences and infer a tree first.
8 files126stars - flowioKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Read, inspect, and write Flow Cytometry Standard (FCS) 2.0, 3.0, and 3.1 files with FlowIO. Use for low-level FCS metadata and channel inspection, NumPy event extraction, multi-dataset files, table export, and FCS 3.1 creation; use FlowKit for compensation, cytometry transforms, gating, or FlowJo workspaces.
7 files126stars - genimlKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Plans and audits local genomic-interval machine learning workflows with Geniml (0.8.4) and Gtars: validates BED files against chromosome sizes and assembly contracts, plans Region2Vec, scEmbed, and BEDspace runs, checks model, tokenizer, and universe.bed compatibility, and assesses consensus universes (CC, CCF, ML, HMM, assess-universe). Bundled scripts only validate or plan; they do not train. Use when checking BED coordinates, contigs, or assembly before analysis. Use when planning Region2Vec or scEmbed training on tokenized Parquet data. Use when verifying that a checkpoint, config.yaml, and universe match. Use when building or assessing a consensus peak universe. Use when reviewing BEDbase or Hugging Face download risks. Not for general BED manipulation or peak calling; use bedtools or similar tools.
14 files126stars - gtarsKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Inspects and plans work with Gtars, the Rust/Python/CLI toolkit for genomic intervals: BED RegionSet set algebra (reduce, setdiff, intersect, closest, cluster, gaps), overlap counts, consensus peak sets, coverage, tokenizers, fragment processing, and refget/BEDbase stores. Use when merging or comparing BED interval sets, building a consensus or universe from peaks, tokenizing regions for ML models, working with fragment files, or planning refget sequence-collection and BEDbase cache use. Use when checking BED coordinates, contigs, or strand before running gtars. Not for general BAM/VCF processing; use samtools or bedtools for that.
15 files126stars - 13c-metabolic-fluxKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Estimates intracellular metabolic fluxes from steady-state carbon-13 isotope-tracing measurements using validated atom maps, mfapy isotope simulation, constrained multistart fitting, and flux-profile diagnostics. Use for 13C-MFA, carbon tracing, mass isotopomer distributions (MDVs/MIDs), positional isotopomers, parallel tracer experiments, and determining whether labeling data constrain a pathway flux. Distinguishes measured-label inference from COBRA flux balance analysis and flags experiments requiring nonstationary MFA.
16 files126stars - arboretoKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Infer gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from gene expression data using scalable algorithms (GRNBoost2, GENIE3). Use when analyzing transcriptomics data (bulk RNA-seq, single-cell RNA-seq) to identify transcription factor-target gene relationships and regulatory interactions. Supports distributed computation for large-scale datasets.
5 files126stars - bidsKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Organizes, queries, validates, and converts neuroscience and biomedical datasets using the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) standard, covering MRI, PET, EEG, MEG, iEEG, EMG, NIRS, microscopy, motion capture, and behavioral data. Covers PyBIDS (BIDSLayout), the bids-validator, HeuDiConv, dcm2bids, BIDScoin, JSON sidecars, dataset_description.json, events.tsv, participants.tsv, .bidsignore, and derivatives. Use when arranging raw data into BIDS directories and filenames. Use when converting DICOM scans to BIDS. Use when validating a dataset before OpenNeuro or DANDI submission. Use when querying files or sidecar metadata with PyBIDS. Use when writing BIDS derivatives. For extracellular Neuropixels analysis, use neuropixels-analysis instead.
8 files126stars - bulk-rnaseqKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
End-to-end bulk RNA-seq orchestrator — takes raw FASTQ reads through QC and trimming (FastQC, fastp/Trim Galore), alignment and quantification (STAR, Salmon, featureCounts), assembles a gene-level counts matrix, then hands off to differential expression (pydeseq2), pathway/GSEA enrichment (pathway-enrichment), and publication figures (scientific-visualization). Use whenever the user has bulk RNA-seq reads or quant output and wants a complete, reproducible differential-expression workflow — e.g. "analyze my RNA-seq", "FASTQ to DESeq2", "run nf-core/rnaseq", "STAR/Salmon quantification", "build a counts matrix for DESeq2", or "go from reads to differentially expressed genes and enriched pathways". Routes between an nf-core/rnaseq (Nextflow) path and a standalone STAR/Salmon path, and covers experimental design, strandedness, and QC gates. For single-cell RNA-seq use the scanpy skill instead.
7 files126stars - esmKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Covers the EvolutionaryScale/Biohub `esm` Python SDK: ESM3 generative protein design (sequence, structure and function tracks, chain-of-thought), ESMC embeddings, inverse folding, ESMFold2 structure prediction, and hosted Forge/Biohub inference with ESM_API_KEY. Use when generating or completing proteins with ESM3, extracting ESMC embeddings for classification or similarity, folding a sequence or designing sequences from a structure, or choosing between esm3-open, esmc_300m and Forge-hosted models. Use when batching async Forge or Biohub API calls. Not for other protein models such as AlphaFold or generic Hugging Face transformers usage.
6 files126stars - folklore-variant-evidenceKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Retrieve ClinGen gene-disease validity assertions for a public gene or disease, and review source-linked public evidence and literature for one supported GRCh38 germline nuclear SNV or simple indel through Folklore Clinical Variant Interpretation MCP. Use when a scientific agent must branch deterministically on resolved, ambiguous, not-found, invalid, unsupported, or unavailable variant outcomes; chain a resolved public variant into related literature or publication details; or preserve evidence provenance without accepting patient, phenotype, family, segregation, or private case data.
2 files126stars - genomic-intelligenceKalarisLabs/research-agent-skills
Predict regulatory features, gene structure, and expression directly from DNA sequence using Genomic Intelligence's hosted transformer DNA language models — no local GPU or model weights. Six tasks over a REST API and a hosted MCP server (keyless public demo): promoter regions, splice donor/acceptor sites, enhancer activity, chromatin state, sequence-to-expression (log TPM), and de-novo gene annotation, plus a composite find-genes-then-predict-expression workflow. Use when the user has a gene symbol, a genomic region, or a DNA/FASTA sequence and wants any of these predictions, mentions Genomic Intelligence, genomicintelligence.ai, api.genomicintelligence.ai, or mcp.genomicintelligence.ai.
5 files126stars
life-sciences plugin questions
How do I install the life-sciences plugin?
In Claude Code run /plugin marketplace add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills, then /plugin install life-sciences@research-agent-skills.
What does the life-sciences plugin include?
life-sciences bundles 33 skills.
How do I update or remove the life-sciences plugin?
Update it with claude plugin update life-sciences@research-agent-skills in your shell, or from the Installed tab of /plugin. Remove it with /plugin uninstall life-sciences@research-agent-skills.
What license is the life-sciences plugin under?
MIT, as stated in the plugin's manifest.