MetaPhlAn Profiler Skill

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MetaPhlAn metagenomic profiling skill for species-level community composition

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Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the MetaPhlAn Profiler Skill skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by a5c-ai/babysitter in library/specializations/domains/science/bioinformatics/skills/metaphlan-profiler/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Purpose

Enable MetaPhlAn metagenomic profiling for species-level community composition.

Capabilities

Clade-specific marker gene analysis
Species-level quantification
Strain-level profiling (StrainPhlAn)
Unknown species estimation
Multi-sample heatmaps
Comparative analysis

Usage Guidelines

Use latest marker database
Profile at species level for most analyses
Apply strain-level analysis when relevant
Visualize community composition
Compare across samples and conditions
Document database versions

Dependencies

MetaPhlAn4
StrainPhlAn
mOTUs

Process Integration

Shotgun Metagenomics Pipeline (shotgun-metagenomics)

Signals

GitHub stars: 2k
Forks: 112
Last commit: Sep 2026

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Item type: skill
Key: metaphlan-profiler
Source: github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter

github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter