compare-biosampleslisted
Install: claude install-skill ammawla/encode-toolkit
# Compare ENCODE Data Across Biosamples
## When to Use
- User wants to compare ENCODE experiments across different tissues, cell lines, or biosamples
- User asks about "tissue comparison", "cell-type differences", "tissue-specific enhancers", or "cross-tissue"
- User needs to identify constitutive vs tissue-specific regulatory elements
- User wants to map data availability across multiple biosamples before integrative analysis
- Example queries: "compare H3K27ac between liver and pancreas", "what marks are tissue-specific?", "find constitutive promoters across all tissues"
Help the user systematically compare data availability and experiments across different biosamples to identify tissue-specific regulatory patterns, constitutive elements, and cross-tissue differences.
## Scientific Rationale
Cross-biosample comparison is the foundation of understanding tissue-specific gene regulation. Regulatory elements -- particularly enhancers -- are the primary drivers of cell-type identity, with promoters being largely shared across tissues. Comparing the same assay across multiple biosamples reveals which regulatory elements are constitutive (shared) versus tissue-specific (unique to one or few cell types).
**The core question**: "Which regulatory features distinguish tissue A from tissue B, and which are shared?"
This requires careful matching of datasets, awareness of batch effects, and understanding of the biosample hierarchy to avoid confounding biological signal with techn