Alterlab Tiledbvcf
Skill ActiveEfficient storage and retrieval of genomic variant data using TileDB. Scalable VCF/BCF ingestion, incremental sample addition, compressed storage, parallel queries, and export capabilities for population genomics. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.
To enable researchers to efficiently manage and query large genomic variant datasets using TileDB, facilitating population genomics and other bioinformatic analyses.
Features
- Scalable VCF/BCF ingestion
- Incremental sample addition
- Compressed storage
- Parallel queries
- Export to VCF and TSV
- Cloud storage integration
Use Cases
- Building population genomics databases
- Performing genome-wide association studies
- Querying specific genomic regions across many samples
- Prototyping genomics analyses
Non-Goals
- Handling multi-sample VCFs directly during ingestion
- Replacing core VCF manipulation tools for simple tasks
- Providing a web UI for data exploration (focus is on programmatic access)
Trust
- warning:Issues AttentionThere are 2 open issues and 0 closed issues in the last 90 days, indicating slow responsiveness to new issues.
Installation
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-SkillsRuns the Vercel skills CLI (skills.sh) via npx — needs Node.js locally and at least one installed skills-compatible agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, …). Assumes the repo follows the agentskills.io format.
Quality Score
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