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- name: pacsomatic
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- description: Operator toolkit for nf-core/pacsomatic matched tumor-normal workflows from BAM inputs. Use this skill when the user needs to validate run inputs, generate pacsomatic-compliant samplesheets, prepare reproducible Nextflow launch artifacts, run locally or submit to schedulers (LSF/Slurm/PBS/SGE), and triage execution failures. Triggers on requests to run pacsomatic, prepare launch commands/scripts, perform dry-run checks, or troubleshoot pipeline startup and scheduler submission errors.
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- license: MIT
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- metadata:
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- version: "1.2"
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- skill-author: Beifang Niu
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- contributors: Haidong, Wenchao
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- upstream-pipeline: https://github.com/nf-core/pacsomatic
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- # pacsomatic
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- ## Overview
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- This skill provides a reproducible execution workflow for nf-core/pacsomatic, centered on a single helper entrypoint that handles validation, artifact generation, and optional execution.
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- Use this skill as the default path for pacsomatic operations. Do not bypass it with manually assembled `nextflow run nf-core/pacsomatic` commands unless the user explicitly asks for manual command construction.
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- | OpenAlex | `references/openalex.md` | 250M+ works, authors, institutions, topics, citation data |
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- | Crossref | `references/crossref.md` | 150M+ DOI metadata, journals, funders, references |
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