Biocontainers Skill

Query the BioContainers Registry through the bundled GA4GH Tool Registry Service (TRS) CLI.

When To Use

Use this skill for BioContainers discovery tasks: finding tools by keyword, checking whether a named tool exists, listing its versions, and resolving the exact quay.io/biocontainers/<tool>:<version>--<build> image tag.

Workflow

1. Resolve this skill directory and run the bundled scripts/biocontainers helper from there; do not assume biocontainers is already on PATH.
2. Search first when the exact BioContainers tool name is uncertain.
3. Use inspect <tool> for registry metadata and the latest version summary.
4. Use inspect <tool>:<version> when the user needs full image tags for a specific version.
5. Use versions <tool> when the user only needs available upstream versions.

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