bio-format-conversion
85 / 100 · Low risk
Fine to try.
Convert between sequence file formats (FASTA, FASTQ, GenBank, EMBL, Stockholm) and re-encode FASTQ quality offsets using Biopython Bio.SeqIO. Use when changing a file format for a downstream tool, fixing FASTQ quality encoding (Phred+33 vs Phred+64 vs Solexa), or when a conversion risks silently dropping annotations or quality scores.
What this skill can do
Downloads and installs other software
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'bio-format-conversion' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'bio-format-conversion' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named bio-format-conversion already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/lilinji/GeneTind-Life-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '908229c955510a1841b216e8bf58f6b22818d4dc' -- 'skills/bio-format-conversion' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/bio-format-conversion' ~/.agents/skills/'bio-format-conversion' && 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-format-conversion' ~/.claude/skills/'bio-format-conversion' (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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-11 | 908229c | 85 |