Agent skill

Bioconductor Nanotube

by bioMate-AI in bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb

NanoTube includes functions for the processing, quality control, analysis, and visualization of NanoString nCounter data.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedData & Analytics

Install Bioconductor Nanotube

skills CLI
$ npx skills add bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb --skill bioconductor-nanotube -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb bioconductor-nanotube --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/transcriptomics/nanotube .claude/skills/bioconductor-nanotube && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
bioconductor-nanotube
GitHub stars
804
Token cost
~966 tokens
SKILL.md length
304 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
112
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

NanoTube includes functions for the processing, quality control, analysis, and visualization of NanoString nCounter data.

  • Tasks that involve Data analysis
  • SKILL.md covers Workflows, When to Use, When NOT to Use and Data Requirements, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Bioinformatics

What it does

Bioconductor Nanotube is an agent skill from bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb. NanoTube includes functions for the processing, quality control, analysis, and visualization of NanoString nCounter data. Analysis functions include differential analysis and gene set analysis methods, as well as postprocessing steps to help understand the results. Additional functions are included to enable interoperability with other Bioconductor NanoString data analysis packages.

Its SKILL.md is about 970 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Data analysis and Bioinformatics. The repository describes itself as: BioMate-KB Bioconductor Skills — 200 packages (top 100 by downloads + 100 rising stars) as vignette-grounded Claude/agent skills, with per-package workflow recipes.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Data analysis
  • Tasks that involve Bioinformatics

Example prompts

  • “/bioconductor-nanotube”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c9bd4d8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are r).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • bioconductor.org

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Bioconductor Nanotube loads about 966 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 102 tokens; SKILL.md has 304 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~102
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~966

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 304 words (~966 tokens).

“Input: RCC files or tabular expression data, sample metadata. Output: Normalized ExpressionSet, differential expression statistics, volcano plots, and GSEA results.”

— opening of SKILL.md by bioMate-AI, Custom licence
name
bioconductor-nanotube
when_to_use
Use when: NanoTube Vignette; Differential expression analysis (NanoTube); Quality control and preprocessing (NanoTube). Not for: Requires R ≥ 4.1 and…
user-invocable
false

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/transcriptomics/nanotube of bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c9bd4d8

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Questions about Bioconductor Nanotube

What does Bioconductor Nanotube do?

NanoTube includes functions for the processing, quality control, analysis, and visualization of NanoString nCounter data. Bioconductor Nanotube is an agent skill from bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb. NanoTube includes functions for the processing, quality control, analysis, and visualization of NanoString nCounter data.

When should I use Bioconductor Nanotube?

Bioconductor Nanotube fits situations like: tasks that involve Data analysis; tasks that involve Bioinformatics.

How do I install Bioconductor Nanotube in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb --skill bioconductor-nanotube -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/transcriptomics/nanotube in bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb) into .claude/skills/bioconductor-nanotube in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Bioconductor Nanotube in Codex?

Run `npx skills add bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb --skill bioconductor-nanotube -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/transcriptomics/nanotube in bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb) into .agents/skills/bioconductor-nanotube in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Bioconductor Nanotube in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb --skill bioconductor-nanotube -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/bioconductor-nanotube, .gemini/skills/bioconductor-nanotube, .github/skills/bioconductor-nanotube and .opencode/skills/bioconductor-nanotube in your project.

What does Bioconductor Nanotube need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Bioconductor Nanotube is instructions for the agent only.

Does Bioconductor Nanotube access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: bioconductor.org. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Bioconductor Nanotube safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Bioconductor Nanotube use?

Bioconductor Nanotube has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Bioconductor Nanotube use?

About 966 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Bioconductor Nanotube?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Bioconductor Nanotube: Exploratory Data Analysis (spacering-net/codeg, 3.9k stars), Exploratory Data Analysis (minicoohei/ai-agent-camp, 347 stars), Pyopenms (davila7/claude-code-templates, 33k stars) and Exploratory Data Analysis (aipoch/medical-research-skills, 1.9k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Bioconductor Nanotube?

bioMate-AI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb, which has 804 GitHub stars. The repository holds 112 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 20, 2026.

Source: bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.