Agent skill

Rare Disease Rnaseq

by ClawBio in ClawBio/ClawBio

Blood RNA-seq expression-outlier detection for rare-disease diagnostics.

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Rare Disease Rnaseq

skills CLI
$ npx skills add ClawBio/ClawBio --skill rare-disease-rnaseq -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install ClawBio/ClawBio rare-disease-rnaseq --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/ClawBio/ClawBio.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/rare-disease-rnaseq .claude/skills/rare-disease-rnaseq && 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
rare-disease-rnaseq
GitHub stars
1.2k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
396 words
Files
4
Skills in repo
104
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Blood RNA-seq expression-outlier detection for rare-disease diagnostics.

  • Works in 5 steps: Library-size normalise (CPM),… → For each gene: compute median and MAD… → For each case-gene cell: modified z =… → …
  • Tasks that involve Bioinformatics
  • SKILL.md covers When To Use, Method, Input Contract and Output Structure, plus 4 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python

What it does

Rare Disease Rnaseq is an agent skill from ClawBio/ClawBio. Blood RNA-seq expression-outlier detection for rare-disease diagnostics. Cases scored against a control reference panel; outliers ranked and filtered by a haploinsufficient disease-gene panel.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files (for example `rare_disease_rnaseq.py` and `tests/test_rare_disease_rnaseq.py`).

It sits in Research & Science, covering Bioinformatics and Data cleaning. The repository describes itself as: 🦖 ClawBio - The first bioinformatics-native AI agent skill library. Local-first. Reproducible. Open. Free. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Bioinformatics
  • Tasks that involve Data cleaning

Example prompts

  • “/rare-disease-rnaseq”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Library-size normalise (CPM), log-transform
  2. For each gene: compute median and MAD across the control panel
  3. For each case-gene cell: modified z = 0.6745 (x − median) / MAD
  4. Flag |z| ≥ threshold (default 3) and gene in disease panel
  5. Rank by |z|, separate down-outliers (haploinsufficiency-consistent) from up-outliers

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit dece754. 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

    Ships script files (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    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

Rare Disease Rnaseq loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 53 tokens; SKILL.md has 396 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~53
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

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

The full file from ClawBio/ClawBio at commit dece754, republished under its MIT licence (© ClawBio). 396 words, ~1,231 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/rare-disease-rnaseq/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
rare-disease-rnaseq
description
Blood RNA-seq expression-outlier detection for rare-disease diagnostics. Cases scored against a control reference panel; outliers ranked and filtered by a haploinsufficient disease-gene panel.
license
MIT
metadata.tags
rna-seq, rare-disease, outlier-detection, OUTRIDER, FRASER, diagnostic, blood, transcriptomics, haploinsufficiency
metadata.trigger_keywords
rare disease rnaseq, expression outlier, OUTRIDER, FRASER, blood rna-seq diagnostic, NGRL, undiagnosed, candidate diagnosis
metadata.version
0.1.0

🩸 Rare-Disease Blood RNA-seq Outlier Detection

Reproduces the diagnostic principle of the Genomics England NGRL paper (Blood-based RNA-Seq of 5,412 individuals, medRxiv 2026.03.19.26348811). For each case sample, scores per-gene expression against a control reference panel and flags candidates falling in a curated dosage-sensitive disease-gene panel.

When To Use

  • A WGS-negative or WGS-VUS rare-disease patient with a paired blood RNA-seq sample
  • A clinical bioinformatician triaging candidate diagnoses before MDT review
  • A population-biobank team building an ancestry-matched control reference for outlier calling (e.g. Qatar Biobank for Sidra paediatric cases)

Method

Per-gene robust outlier scoring on log2(CPM+1):

  1. Library-size normalise (CPM), log-transform
  2. For each gene: compute median and MAD across the control panel
  3. For each case-gene cell: modified z = 0.6745 (x − median) / MAD
  4. Flag |z| ≥ threshold (default 3) and gene in disease panel
  5. Rank by |z|, separate down-outliers (haploinsufficiency-consistent) from up-outliers

This implements the diagnostic principle of OUTRIDER (per-gene outlier vs control panel) without the autoencoder, so it runs in seconds with no R/Bioconductor stack. For clinical-grade calls swap to the full DROP pipeline (gagneurlab/drop) which adds OUTRIDER's denoising autoencoder, FRASER2 splicing outliers, and confounder correction. The skill's I/O contract is the same so the upgrade is drop-in.

Input Contract

  • Counts matrix (.csv or .tsv): rows = genes (HGNC symbol), columns = sample IDs
  • Cases file (.txt): one case sample ID per line
  • Controls file (.txt): one control sample ID per line (typically n ≥ 50)
  • Disease panel (optional, .csv with gene and mechanism columns): defaults to a built-in 50-gene haploinsufficient panel
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Output Structure

rdoutlier_report/
├── report.md                     # per-case candidate diagnoses + clinical narrative
├── result.json                   # standard ClawBio envelope
├── figures/
│   └── case_outlier_heatmap.png  # z-scores across cases × top genes
├── tables/
│   ├── outlier_calls.csv         # all flagged outliers with z-score, direction, mechanism
│   └── per_gene_stats.csv        # control median + MAD per gene
└── reproducibility/
    ├── commands.sh
    ├── environment.yml
    └── checksums.sha256

Demo

bash
python clawbio.py run rdoutlier --demo

Generates 100 synthetic Gulf-ancestry control samples + 2 cases with injected outliers (FBN1 down, NF1 up) across a 200-gene panel. Demonstrates the diagnostic loop end-to-end in seconds.

Production Path (Sidra / QBB Reference)

ComponentDemoProduction
Aligner + quantifiernone (synthetic counts)STAR + featureCounts (or Salmon)
Outlier algorithmrobust per-gene z-scoreOUTRIDER autoencoder + FRASER2 splicing
Control panel100 synthetic samplesQBB n≈12K PAXgene blood RNA-seq
Confounder correctionnoneDROP pipeline (RIN, batch, hidden factors)
Disease panel50 haploinsufficient genesClinGen haploinsufficient + PanelApp
Return-of-result loopreport.mdSidra MDT reflex from WGS-negative referrals

Safety

  • Local-only processing, no network calls in core pipeline
  • Compatible with secure research environments (Genomics England RE pattern; Sidra clinical genomics environment)
  • Disclaimer required on every report

Disclaimer

ClawBio is a research and educational tool. It is not a medical device and does not provide clinical diagnoses. Consult a healthcare professional before making any medical decisions.

© ClawBio, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files in skills/rare-disease-rnaseq of ClawBio/ClawBio.

  • SKILL.md
  • data/disease_panel.csv
  • rare_disease_rnaseq.py
  • tests/test_rare_disease_rnaseq.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit dece754

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in ClawBio/ClawBio, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Rare Disease Rnaseq

What does Rare Disease Rnaseq do?

Blood RNA-seq expression-outlier detection for rare-disease diagnostics. Rare Disease Rnaseq is an agent skill from ClawBio/ClawBio. Blood RNA-seq expression-outlier detection for rare-disease diagnostics.

When should I use Rare Disease Rnaseq?

Rare Disease Rnaseq fits situations like: tasks that involve Bioinformatics; tasks that involve Data cleaning.

How do I install Rare Disease Rnaseq in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add ClawBio/ClawBio --skill rare-disease-rnaseq -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/rare-disease-rnaseq in ClawBio/ClawBio) into .claude/skills/rare-disease-rnaseq in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Rare Disease Rnaseq in Codex?

Run `npx skills add ClawBio/ClawBio --skill rare-disease-rnaseq -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/rare-disease-rnaseq in ClawBio/ClawBio) into .agents/skills/rare-disease-rnaseq in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Rare Disease Rnaseq 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 ClawBio/ClawBio --skill rare-disease-rnaseq -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/rare-disease-rnaseq, .gemini/skills/rare-disease-rnaseq, .github/skills/rare-disease-rnaseq and .opencode/skills/rare-disease-rnaseq in your project.

What does Rare Disease Rnaseq need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Rare Disease Rnaseq needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Rare Disease Rnaseq access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Rare Disease Rnaseq 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 Rare Disease Rnaseq use?

Rare Disease Rnaseq is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Rare Disease Rnaseq use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.9k 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 Rare Disease Rnaseq?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Rare Disease Rnaseq: Bio Outlier Splicing Detection (GPTomics/bioSkills, 1.2k stars), Bio Proteomics Data Import (FreedomIntelligence/OpenClaw-Medical-Skills, 3.1k stars), Bio Splicing Qc (GPTomics/bioSkills, 1.2k stars) and Knn Imputation (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 Rare Disease Rnaseq?

ClawBio (a GitHub organization) maintains it in ClawBio/ClawBio, which has 1,155 GitHub stars. The repository holds 104 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: ClawBio/ClawBio on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.