scikit-bio Tree Comparison Starter
SkillAI & modelsUse this skill to parse two small Newick trees with scikit-bio and summarize a compact topology-comparison result.
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Then ask your AI: use the scikit-bio Tree Comparison Starter skill
About this capability
A framework for discovering, compiling, and validating reusable skills for scientific agents.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by ma-compbio-lab/skillfoundry in skills/ecology-evolution-and-biodiversity/scikitbio-tree-comparison-starter/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Use this skill to parse two small Newick trees with scikit-bio and summarize a compact topology-comparison result.
What it does
- Parses two deterministic toy phylogenies from Newick strings.
- Summarizes tip labels, total branch lengths, and both unweighted and weighted Robinson-Foulds distances.
- Returns a small JSON payload suitable for smoke tests and future phylogenetic workflow extensions.
When to use it
- You need a runnable starter for
Phylogenetic comparative workflows. - You want a lightweight verified tree-comparison example before larger comparative biology analyses.
Example
slurm/envs/ecology/bin/python skills/ecology-evolution-and-biodiversity/scikitbio-tree-comparison-starter/scripts/run_scikitbio_tree_comparison.py \
--out scratch/ecology/tree_comparison_summary.json
Verification
- Skill-local tests:
python3 -m unittest discover -s skills/ecology-evolution-and-biodiversity/scikitbio-tree-comparison-starter/tests -p 'test_*.py' - Repository smoke:
python3 -m unittest tests.smoke.test_phase31_frontier_leaf_conversion_skills -v
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 39
- Forks
- 5
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
scikitbio-tree-comparison-starter- Source
- github.com/ma-compbio-lab/skillfoundry