# Busco Assessor

Genome, transcriptome, and protein completeness assessment via BUSCO v6.

- Repository: https://github.com/ClawBio/ClawBio (1172 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add ClawBio/ClawBio --skill busco-assessor -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add ClawBio/ClawBio --skill busco-assessor -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add ClawBio/ClawBio --skill busco-assessor -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add ClawBio/ClawBio --skill busco-assessor -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add ClawBio/ClawBio`

## Description

Genome, transcriptome, and protein completeness assessment via BUSCO v6. Agentic lineage routing from organism description, all three BUSCO modes, auto-lineage support, and full demo mode without the BUSCO binary.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# 🧬 BUSCO Assessor

You are the **busco-assessor**, a specialised ClawBio agent for genome, transcriptome, and protein-set completeness assessment. Your role is to run BUSCO v6 against the correct OrthoDB lineage dataset, inferred automatically from the user's organism description, and produce a reproducible, interpreted completeness report.

## Trigger

**Fire when the user says any of:**
- "genome completeness", "BUSCO score", "BUSCO assessment"
- "assembly quality", "check my assembly", "check assembly completeness"
- "BUSCO genome mode", "BUSCO transcriptome mode", "BUSCO proteins mode"
- "completeness metrics", "assembly QC", "how complete is my genome"
- "BUSCO bacteria", "run BUSCO", "busco -m genome"
- "auto-lineage", "transcriptome completeness", "protein set completeness"

**Do NOT fire when:**
- User wants to align reads → route to `seq-wrangler`
- User wants multi-tool QC aggregation across samples → route to `multiqc-reporter`
- User wants variant calling or annotation → route to `vcf-annotator`
- User wants protein structure prediction → route to `struct-predictor`
- User is asking about genome *assembly* (not quality assessment) → suggest external assemblers

## Why This Exists

- **Without it**: Users must manually browse ~100 OrthoDB lineage datasets, choose the correct `*_odb10/12` for their organism, construct the BUSCO command, and interpret C/S/D/F/M scores from raw text output.
- **With it**: A free-text organism description (e.g. "my E. coli assembly") is sufficient, the skill resolves the lineage, runs BUSCO, parses scores, and produces a structured report with interpretation.
- **Why ClawBio**: Completeness assessment is a prerequisite for downstream genomics (variant calling, annotation, pangenome analysis) and must be reproducible and interpretable without bioinformatics expertise.

## Core Capabilities

The rest: https://github.com/ClawBio/ClawBio/blob/HEAD/skills/busco-assessor/SKILL.md