# tooluniverse-variant-analysis

A skill for VCF and variant analysis: parsing, annotation, classification, notation conversion and lookups against external databases. Useful when variants need sorting out.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 371 installs · ★ 1759
- Author: mims-harvard
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/tree/HEAD/skills/tooluniverse-variant-analysis/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/tooluniverse-variant-analysis

## What it does

The skill covers VCF and variant work: parsing, annotation, classification (synonymous, missense, frameshift, stop_gained), VAF filtering, and splitting coding from non-coding records. It also compares variants across conditions and converts between SPDI, HGVS, VCF coordinates and rsID, including ALFA per-ancestry allele frequencies.

Bundled scripts do the heavy lifting. `gatk_haplotypecaller_pipeline.py` runs the pipeline from FASTQ or BAM through to HaplotypeCaller calls, `coding_variant_filter.py` averages coding variants per sample after dropping intronic, intergenic and UTR rows, and `variant_fraction.py` computes the share of variants below a VAF threshold. They print `KEY=VALUE` lines, which are easier to parse than pandas output. For counting an existing VCF, the `VCFStatsTool` tools — `VCF_summary_stats`, `VCF_count_variants`, `VCF_normalize` — wrap `bcftools` and return JSON.

One thing to know: `gatk_haplotypecaller_pipeline.py` and `coding_variant_filter.py` refuse to write inside the input data folder, which is read-only by convention. Pass `--workdir /tmp/<run_dir>` or another writable path outside it. The skill also tells you to check for pre-computed results first (`*_executed.ipynb`, files named like `*results*`, `analysis.R`), because re-running from raw data produces different numbers and takes far longer.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --skill tooluniverse-variant-analysis -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/tooluniverse-variant-analysis/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/tooluniverse-variant-analysis/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --skill tooluniverse-variant-analysis -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/tooluniverse-variant-analysis/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --skill tooluniverse-variant-analysis -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/tooluniverse-variant-analysis/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mims-harvard/ToolUniverse tooluniverse-variant-analysis
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/tooluniverse-variant-analysis/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --skill tooluniverse-variant-analysis -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --path skills/tooluniverse-variant-analysis
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/tooluniverse-variant-analysis/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --skill tooluniverse-variant-analysis -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/tree/HEAD/skills/tooluniverse-variant-analysis/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- parse a VCF and count SNPs and indels
- drop intronic, intergenic and UTR variants
- compute the share of variants below a VAF cutoff
- convert a variant between SPDI, HGVS, VCF and rsID
- cross-check a variant against EVA study cohorts

## Example prompts
- count SNPs and indels in this BAM with HaplotypeCaller
- filter out intronic and UTR variants and give me the average coding count per sample
- convert this variant from HGVS to rsID

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: tooluniverse-variant-analysis
description: VCF and variant analysis — parsing, annotation, classification (synonymous, missense, frameshift, stop_gained), VAF filtering, coding vs non-coding categorization, multi-condition variant comparison, variant-notation conversion (SPDI/HGVS/VCF/rsID interconversion, ALFA per-ancestry allele frequencies), European Variation Archive (EVA) lookups (per-study cohort variant data, RS-accession resolution), HGVS validation/normalization (Mutalyzer), gene-specific curated variants (LOVD), canonical cross-database allele IDs (ClinGen Allele Registry), automated ACMG/AMP classification (GeneBe), principal-transcript selection (APPRIS), Ensembl linkage disequilibrium (LD) for GWAS/fine-mapping, GRCh37/GRCh38 coordinate liftover and protein/cDNA-to-genomic mapping, and Ensembl ID utilities (stable-ID version history, cross-references, region/gene feature overlap, assembly/species metadata). Use for VCF parsing, variant fraction calculations (denominator = coding subset only, NOT all variants), per-sample mutation profiling, converting a variant between SPDI/HGVS/VCF-coordinate/dbSNP-rsID representations, cross-checking a variant against EVA's raw submitted study cohorts, validating an HGVS string's syntax, looking up curated variants for a well-studied gene, resolving a variant to its ClinGen CA ID, getting an automated ACMG verdict, or picking a gene's principal transcript.
disable-model-invocation: true
---

# Variant Analysis and Annotation

## RULE ZERO — Check for pre-computed results FIRST

Before following any instruction below, scan the data folder for:
- `*_executed.ipynb` → read with `tu run read_executed_notebook '{"data_folder":"<path>","search":"<keyword>"}'` and cite its cell outputs as the authoritative answer
- Pre-computed result files (CSV/TSV with names like `*results*`, `*deseq*`, `*enrich*`, `*stats*`, `*_simplified.csv`) → read directly and report the requested value
- Canonical analysis scripts (`analysis.R`, `run_*.py`, `find_*.R`, `*.Rmd`) → execute as-is and read the output
```
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