Supports audited local Geniml genomic-interval workflows: validate BED and universe contracts, plan Region2Vec or scEmbed runs, inspect model/tokenizer compatibility, and assess consensus universes.
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Supports audited local Geniml genomic-interval workflows: validate BED and universe contracts, plan Region2Vec or scEmbed runs, inspect model/tokenizer compatibility, and assess consensus universes.
name: geniml
description: "Supports audited local Geniml genomic-interval workflows: validate BED and universe contracts, plan Region2Vec or scEmbed runs, inspect model/tokenizer compatibility, and assess consensus universes."
license: MIT
compatibility: Requires Python 3.12 and uv for the tested geniml 0.8.4 / gtars 0.10.0 stack; scEmbed needs AnnData 0.12.19 with Zarr 2.18.7 and the listed ML packages. Bundled planners and inspectors are dependency-free, local-only, and make no network requests.
allowed-tools: Read Write Edit Bash Glob
metadata:
version: "1.4"
skill-author: "K-Dense Inc."
upstream-version: "0.8.4"
last-reviewed: "2026-10-01"
Geniml
Use Geniml for machine learning and statistical workflows over genomic interval
sets. Treat coordinates, assemblies, token vocabularies, model artifacts, and
sample grouping as explicit contracts. The bundled scripts validate or plan;
they do not import Geniml, contact services, deserialize models, or execute
training.
Bash is declared only for explicit, user-approved uv, Python, Geniml,
Gtars, Git, and native CLI commands shown in this guide; bundled Python helpers
do not spawn subprocesses. Example paths under data/, refs/, work/, and
models/ are user-provided project placeholders, not missing bundled files.
Verified release snapshot
Latest stable PyPI release on 2026-10-01: geniml==0.8.4 (2026-01-14).
PyPI does not declare Requires-Python; its classifiers list Python
3.10-3.14. The current recipes below were tested on Python 3.12.
geniml==0.8.4 accepts gtars>=0.2.5; the verified base smoke used current
gtars==0.10.0 (2026-09-05, Python >=3.10).
Extras are ml and test. The base install omits Torch, Gensim, Scanpy,
Hugging Face Hub, pyBigWig, and HMM dependencies.
Upstream documentation contains stale examples. Release source and installed
--help output take precedence where they conflict.
Install reproducibly
Use a separate project environment. The tested CPU stack uses Python 3.12:
For the consensus recipes, also install pyBigWig==0.3.26 and
hmmlearn==0.3.3. For a durable project, use the same requirements with
uv add and retain uv.lock.
Geniml requires Zarr <3. AnnData 0.13 requires Zarr >=3, so current AnnData
cannot share this environment. Keep AnnData 0.12.19 here; transfer H5AD files
between separate environments when newer AnnData features are needed. Never
force an incompatible installation with --no-deps.
The full geniml[ml]==0.8.4 extra includes additional, older pinned components.
Its resolution was checked with anndata==0.12.19 and gtars==0.10.0, but
that full stack was not executed; it selected Scanpy 1.11.5 and Transformers
4.57.6. It is unnecessary for the workflows above.
Do not install an unpinned Git branch. Record Python, OS/architecture, the
resolved lockfile, and the PyPI artifact digest. Geniml itself is BSD-2-Clause;
the MIT frontmatter value licenses this skill's content.
Start with the safety gate
Before importing Geniml or running an external binary:
Work only with explicit local regular files. Reject URLs, FIFOs, devices,
and symlinks unless the user deliberately changes that policy.
Validate BED structure and the declared assembly against a trusted local
chromosome-sizes file.
Bound file count, bytes, rows, workers, epochs, and output size.
Separate train/validation/test by patient, donor, biological replicate, or
other independent unit—not by BED row or cell alone.
Inventory and checksum the universe, tokenizer, model, config, inputs,
metadata manifest, and native binaries.
Obtain explicit approval before any BEDbase or Hugging Face download. Never
infer approval from a model ID or BEDbase identifier.
Keep logs aggregate and bounded. BED filenames, sample IDs, phenotypes,
labels, barcodes, and genomic intervals may be sensitive.
Coordinate and assembly contract
BED intervals are normally 0-based, half-open[start, end): start is
included, end is excluded, and length is end - start. Do not mix them with
1-based closed coordinates from VCF/GFF or user-facing genome browsers.
For every corpus and artifact, record:
assembly and patch/accession where possible (for example GRCh38 versus
GRCh38.p14), plus the chromosome-sizes checksum;
contig naming convention (chr1 versus 1), alt/random/decoy policy, and
mitochondrial naming;
coordinate convention, sorting order, duplicate/overlap policy, and whether
BED strand is meaningful;
Reject negative coordinates, end <= start, integer overflow, unknown
contigs, ends beyond contig length, malformed columns, mixed assemblies, and
silent contig renaming. Sorting and normalization never repair an assembly
mismatch. BED3 has no strand; when column 6 is present, preserve +, -, or
. unless the assay contract says otherwise.
Run a bounded validation and normalization plan before analysis:
The validator reports proposed actions but never rewrites the BED file.
Current API map
Region and tokenizer I/O
Prefer Gtars for new interval/tokenizer code:
from gtars.models import Region, RegionSet
from gtars.tokenizers import Tokenizer
regions = RegionSet("data/peaks.bed")
tokenizer = Tokenizer.from_bed("refs/universe.bed")
encoded = tokenizer(regions)
input_ids = encoded["input_ids"]
RegionSet and Tokenizer also accept remote inputs in some constructors;
this skill permits local paths only unless network access is explicitly
approved. geniml.io.RegionSet(regions, backed=False) remains available as a
legacy Python implementation; backed sets are iterable but not indexable.
geniml.io.Region uses stop, while gtars.models.Region uses end.
With gtars 0.10.0, seven special tokens are added to a BED vocabulary. Therefore
len(tokenizer) is not simply the number of universe rows. Preserve universe
row order and the exact special-token map.
Region2Vec
The modern class lives at a concrete module path:
from geniml.region2vec.main import Region2VecExModel
from geniml.region2vec.utils import Region2VecDataset
from gtars.tokenizers import Tokenizer
tokenizer = Tokenizer.from_bed("refs/universe.bed")
dataset = Region2VecDataset("work/tokens.parquet", shuffle=True, convert_to_str=True)
model = Region2VecExModel(tokenizer=tokenizer, embedding_dim=100)
model.train(dataset, epochs=10, window_size=5, num_cpus=4, seed=42)
The Parquet input must contain one list-valued tokens column, one document
per row. Record token frequencies and min_count: in the
0.8.4 training implementation,
only Gensim-retained token IDs receive trained weights. Universe membership
alone therefore does not prove a token has a learned embedding. Report the
fraction of inference tokens excluded by training-frequency filtering and
exclude or explicitly flag their embeddings in downstream comparisons. See references/region2vec.md for export,
encoding, legacy CLI, and evaluation details.
scEmbed
Import ScEmbed from geniml.scembed.main. AnnData .var must contain
chr, start, and end; rows are cells and nonzero features identify
accessible regions. The released tokenize_anndata and ScEmbed.encode
fail with Gtars 0.10.0. Use the tested explicit Region construction and token
projection in the scEmbed reference; preserve cell order and reject empty,
unmatched, or untrained token sets. See
references/scembed.md.
BEDspace
BEDspace remains in 0.8.4 and invokes an external StarSpace executable.
StarSpace is archived and upstream Geniml does not pin a compatible revision.
Treat BEDspace as a legacy reproduction path, not the default for new systems.
Its preprocessing also returns blank documents with Gtars 0.10.0 after
catching a tokenizer API error. See references/bedspace.md
for the source contract and reproduction limitations.
CC/CCF/ML/HMM consume precomputed coverage bigWigs. Do not concatenate or
generate coverage until all BED files pass the same assembly contract.
Assessment and embedding metrics are distinct: assess-universe measures fit
of a universe to interval collections, while eval implements CTT, RCT, GDST,
and NPT for embeddings. See
references/consensus_peaks.md and
references/utilities.md.
Important 0.8.4 migration notes
The 0.7.0 changelog moved new RegionSet/tokenizer work toward Gtars.
The 0.4.0 names TreeTokenizer and AnnDataTokenizer are historical; the
current Gtars API exposes Tokenizer.
In the 0.8.4 wheel, geniml.region2vec and geniml.scembed do not re-export
their modern classes/functions. Use the concrete module paths above.
geniml tokenize and geniml region2vec call names no longer exported by
their package __init__ files; do not build new workflows around those CLI
paths without an installed-version smoke test.
geniml scembed parses legacy MatrixMarket options but its command body is a
no-op in 0.8.4. Use geniml.scembed.main.ScEmbed.
Official pages still show geniml assess; the release command is
geniml assess-universe.
.gtok remains present in legacy datasets, but upstream issue #14 proposes
deprecating many-file .gtok workflows. Prefer one bounded Parquet corpus.
Config key embedding_size is accepted only for backward compatibility;
use embedding_dim.
Model and universe compatibility
A Region2Vec/scEmbed inference bundle is valid only when these agree:
model config.yamlvocab_size and embedding_dim;
exact universe.bed bytes/order and assembly;
tokenizer implementation/version and special-token IDs;
checkpoint tensor shapes and pooling policy;
Geniml/Gtars versions and any tokenization parameters.
Geniml 0.8.4 defaults to checkpoint.pt, config.yaml, and universe.bed.
Its loader uses torch.load(..., weights_only=True), but .pt, Gensim
.model, pickle, joblib, and native binaries remain untrusted inputs. Inspect
and checksum artifacts before loading; use an isolated environment and never
load a checkpoint merely to discover its metadata.
Region2VecExModel(model_path="org/repo"), ScEmbed(model_path="org/repo"),
and Gtars Tokenizer.from_pretrained(...) can download from Hugging Face.
The Geniml classes' local from_pretrained("models/local") loads a bundle. Their
constructors discard Hub revision, cache_dir, and local_files_only
kwargs. For an authorized download, fetch the three files with
huggingface_hub.hf_hub_download directly at a reviewed immutable revision,
verify hashes, assemble a local bundle, then use the local classmethod. Do not
pass a Hub ID to the constructor expecting offline or revision enforcement.
BEDbase downloads and caches
BBClient.load_bed, load_bedset, and token-cache operations may contact
https://api.bedbase.org. The default cache is
$BBCLIENT_CACHE or ~/.bbcache; BEDBASE_API changes the endpoint. Do not
read unrelated environment variables. Set an explicit project cache, estimate
size, approve identifiers/endpoints, and verify returned checksums before use.
The token-cache download ignores the instance's bedbase_api and uses the
import-time default. BEDset downloads are unbounded all-member downloads,
without pagination in the checked server route. The exact GET routes and
source-only/live-verification boundary are in the utilities reference.
The cache-bed, cache-bedset, and cache-tokens subcommands may use the
network. Do not run them implicitly or include sensitive local BED files in an
upload/cache workflow.
Local audit and planning CLIs
All scripts are standard-library-only and default to redacted JSON:
# Audit manifest paths, checksums, assemblies, and patient/donor leakage
python skills/geniml/scripts/corpus_auditor.py \
--manifest data/manifest.tsv --assembly-column assembly \
--group-column patient_id --split-column split
# Plan tokenizer/model compatibility checks
python skills/geniml/scripts/tokenizer_compatibility.py \
--model-dir models/r2v --universe refs/universe.bed --assembly GRCh38
# Plan consensus construction; does not execute Geniml or coverage tools
python skills/geniml/scripts/consensus_plan.py \
--manifest data/manifest.tsv --chrom-sizes refs/GRCh38.chrom.sizes \
--assembly GRCh38 --method cc --output-dir work/consensus
# Plan an embedding run; does not import ML libraries
python skills/geniml/scripts/embedding_plan.py \
--mode region2vec --data work/tokens.parquet \
--universe refs/universe.bed --output-dir work/r2v \
--assembly GRCh38
Use --help for resource limits and explicit path-disclosure controls.
References
Region2Vec: modern API, artifacts, CLI drift,
training, encoding, and evaluation.
scEmbed: AnnData/token preparation, training,
inference, annotation, privacy, and leakage.
Consensus peaks: coverage prerequisites,
CC/CCF/ML/HMM, assessment, and assembly safeguards.
Utilities: I/O, Gtars tokenizers, BBClient,
evaluation, model safety, migration, and dated sources.
Synthetic CPU checks covered training, tokenization, explicit cell pooling,
local export/reload, evaluation loading, CC construction, and local caches.
BEDspace native training, hosted annotation, public model inference, and
real-cohort performance remain untested. Source snapshot and primary-paper
links are dated in
references/utilities.md. Re-check release metadata
and installed signatures before changing the pinned versions.
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Which agents can use geniml?
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