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bio-duplicate-handling
95 / 100 · Low risk
Fine to try.
By BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills (GitHub) · design · 219 stars · scanned at commit 8cbdd18
Mark and remove PCR/optical duplicates using samtools fixmate and markdup. Use when preparing alignments for variant calling or when duplicate reads would bias analysis.
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
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What this skill can do
Runs commands on your computer
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Found in 21 places.
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- skills/bioskills/duplicate-handling/SKILL.md, line 131
samtools collate -O -u input.bam tmpdir/collate | \ - skills/bioskills/duplicate-handling/SKILL.md, line 150
samtools fixmate namesorted.bam fixmate.bam - skills/bioskills/duplicate-handling/SKILL.md, line 156
samtools fixmate -m namesorted.bam fixmate.bam - skills/bioskills/duplicate-handling/SKILL.md, line 161
samtools fixmate -m -@ 4 namesorted.bam fixmate.bam - skills/bioskills/duplicate-handling/SKILL.md, line 166
samtools fixmate -r -m namesorted.bam fixmate.bam - skills/bioskills/duplicate-handling/SKILL.md, line 175
samtools markdup input.bam marked.bam - skills/bioskills/duplicate-handling/SKILL.md, line 180
samtools markdup -r input.bam deduped.bam - skills/bioskills/duplicate-handling/SKILL.md, line 185
samtools markdup -s input.bam marked.bam 2> markdup_stats.txt - skills/bioskills/duplicate-handling/SKILL.md, line 191
samtools markdup -d 2500 -t input.bam marked.bam # NovaSeq / patterned - skills/bioskills/duplicate-handling/SKILL.md, line 197
samtools markdup -@ 4 input.bam marked.bam - skills/bioskills/duplicate-handling/SKILL.md, line 202
samtools markdup -f stats.txt input.bam marked.bam - skills/bioskills/duplicate-handling/SKILL.md, line 209
samtools flagstat marked.bam - skills/bioskills/duplicate-handling/SKILL.md, line 216
samtools view -c -f 1024 marked.bam - skills/bioskills/duplicate-handling/SKILL.md, line 221
total=$(samtools view -c marked.bam) - skills/bioskills/duplicate-handling/SKILL.md, line 286
bwa-mem2 mem ref.fa R1.fq R2.fq | \ - skills/bioskills/duplicate-handling/SKILL.md, line 293
java -jar picard.jar MarkDuplicates \ - skills/bioskills/duplicate-handling/SKILL.md, line 306
umi_tools dedup --stdin=cellranger_possorted.bam --stdout=dedup.bam \
and 1 more places
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'bio-duplicate-handling' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'bio-duplicate-handling' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named bio-duplicate-handling already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(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/duplicate-handling' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/bioskills/duplicate-handling' ~/.agents/skills/'bio-duplicate-handling' && rm -rf "$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-duplicate-handling' ~/.claude/skills/'bio-duplicate-handling' (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 | 85 |