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OpenClaw bioinformatics skill library for genomics pipelines

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ClawBio Guide

Overview

ClawBio is a bioinformatics skill library for OpenClaw that provides pre-built skills for common genomics and biological analysis tasks — sequence alignment, variant calling, differential expression, pathway analysis, and more. Each skill encapsulates best-practice bioinformatics pipelines as conversational agent capabilities, making complex analyses accessible through natural language.

Installation

# Install as OpenClaw plugin
openclaw plugins install @clawbio/clawbio

# Or add to your OpenClaw configuration
# In openclaw.config.json:
{
  "plugins": ["@clawbio/clawbio"]
}

Available Skills

Skill	Pipeline	Description
sequence-align	BWA/Bowtie2	Align reads to reference genome
variant-call	GATK/BCFtools	Call SNPs and indels
rna-seq	STAR + DESeq2	Differential expression analysis
chip-seq	MACS2 + DiffBind	Peak calling and differential binding
metagenomics	Kraken2 + Bracken	Taxonomic classification
phylogenetics	IQ-TREE + RAxML	Phylogenetic tree construction
protein-structure	AlphaFold/ESMFold	Structure prediction
pathway-analysis	GSEA + enrichR	Gene set enrichment

Usage Examples

RNA-Seq Analysis

# Through OpenClaw conversational interface:
# "Analyze differential expression between treated and control
#  samples in the data/rnaseq/ directory"

# ClawBio executes:
# 1. Quality control (FastQC)
# 2. Trimming (Trimmomatic)
# 3. Alignment (STAR)
# 4. Quantification (featureCounts)
# 5. Differential expression (DESeq2)
# 6. Visualization (volcano plot, MA plot, heatmap)
# 7. Pathway enrichment (GSEA)

Variant Calling

# "Call variants from the whole-genome sequencing data
#  in samples/ against hg38 reference"

# Pipeline:
# 1. Alignment: BWA-MEM2 → sorted BAM
# 2. Preprocessing: MarkDuplicates, BQSR
# 3. Variant calling: GATK HaplotypeCaller
# 4. Filtering: VQSR or hard filters
# 5. Annotation: VEP or SnpEff
# 6. Report: variant statistics, quality metrics

Metagenomics

# "Classify the microbial communities in my 16S/shotgun
#  sequencing data and generate taxonomic plots"

# Pipeline:
# 1. Quality filtering (fastp)
# 2. Host decontamination (Bowtie2 vs human)
# 3. Classification (Kraken2 + Bracken)
# 4. Diversity analysis (alpha + beta diversity)
# 5. Differential abundance (LEfSe/ANCOM)
# 6. Visualization (stacked bar, PCoA, heatmap)

Configuration

{
  "clawbio": {
    "reference_genomes": {
      "hg38": "/data/references/hg38/",
      "mm39": "/data/references/mm39/",
      "custom": "/data/references/custom/"
    },
    "tools": {
      "aligner": "bwa-mem2",
      "variant_caller": "gatk",
      "quantifier": "featurecounts",
      "de_method": "deseq2"
    },
    "resources": {
      "threads": 8,
      "memory_gb": 32,
      "gpu": false
    },
    "output": {
      "format": ["html_report", "csv", "plots"],
      "figures_dpi": 300
    }
  }
}

Skill Development

# Create custom bioinformatics skills
# SKILL.md template for new analysis types

"""
---
name: my-custom-analysis
description: "Custom bioinformatics analysis skill"
metadata:
  openclaw:
    category: "domains"
    subcategory: "biomedical"
---

# My Custom Analysis

## When to use
Describe when this analysis is appropriate.

## Pipeline Steps
1. Input validation
2. Processing step 1
3. Processing step 2
4. Output generation

## Example Usage
Show conversational examples.
"""

Use Cases

Genomics pipelines: Standard NGS analysis workflows
Lab integration: Natural language interface for bioinformatics
Teaching: Demonstrate analysis pipelines interactively
Rapid prototyping: Quick exploratory biological analyses
Reproducibility: Standardized, documented pipelines