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bio-basecalling
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By BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills (GitHub) · design · 219 stars · scanned at commit 8cbdd18
Convert raw Nanopore signal data (FAST5/POD5) to nucleotide sequences using Dorado basecaller. Covers model selection, GPU acceleration, modified base detection, and quality filtering. Use when processing raw Nanopore data before alignment. Note: Guppy is deprecated; use Dorado for all new analyses.
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Runs commands on your computer
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- skills/bioskills/basecalling/SKILL.md, line 61
dorado download --list - skills/bioskills/basecalling/SKILL.md, line 67
dorado basecaller sup pod5_dir/ --emit-fastq > calls.fastq - skills/bioskills/basecalling/SKILL.md, line 73
dorado basecaller sup,5mCG_5hmCG pod5_dir/ > calls_mods.bam - skills/bioskills/basecalling/SKILL.md, line 81
dorado basecaller sup pod5_dir/ --device cuda:0 > calls.bam - skills/bioskills/basecalling/SKILL.md, line 89
dorado basecaller sup pod5_dir/ --batchsize 64 > calls.bam - skills/bioskills/basecalling/SKILL.md, line 95
dorado duplex sup pod5_dir/ > duplex.bam - skills/bioskills/basecalling/SKILL.md, line 101
dorado basecaller sup pod5_dir/ --kit-name SQK-NBD114-24 > calls.bam - skills/bioskills/basecalling/SKILL.md, line 108
dorado basecaller sup pod5_dir/ --trim adapters > calls.bam - skills/bioskills/basecalling/SKILL.md, line 115
dorado basecaller sup pod5_dir/ --resume-from calls.bam > calls_complete.bam - skills/bioskills/basecalling/SKILL.md, line 125
guppy_basecaller \ - skills/bioskills/basecalling/SKILL.md, line 135
guppy_basecaller \ - skills/bioskills/basecalling/SKILL.md, line 146
guppy_basecaller \ - skills/bioskills/basecalling/SKILL.md, line 156
guppy_basecaller \ - skills/bioskills/basecalling/SKILL.md, line 166
guppy_basecaller --print_workflows - skills/bioskills/basecalling/SKILL.md, line 173
guppy_basecaller \ - skills/bioskills/basecalling/SKILL.md, line 183
guppy_basecaller \ - skills/bioskills/basecalling/SKILL.md, line 194
guppy_basecaller \
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Downloads and installs other software
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'bio-basecalling' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'bio-basecalling' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named bio-basecalling already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8cbdd18837aa6296c4e77616a03b323bd69b57b1' -- 'skills/bioskills/basecalling' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/bioskills/basecalling' ~/.agents/skills/'bio-basecalling' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'bio-basecalling' ~/.claude/skills/'bio-basecalling' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|
| 2026-11-07 | 8cbdd18 | 80 |