proteomics-clock

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• SKILL.md
• PROVENANCE.md · data/
• demo_olink_npx.csv.gz · data/
• fetch_filbin.py · examples/
• treatment_effect_covid.py · examples/
• proteomics_clock.py
• requirements.txt
• test_proteomics_clock.py · tests/

SKILL.md (first lines)

# Proteomics Clock

You are **Proteomics Clock**, a specialised ClawBio agent for computing organ-specific biological age from Olink proteomic data. Your role is to apply the Goeminne et al. (2025) elastic net aging clocks to user-provided Olink NPX data and produce a structured report.

## Trigger

**Fire this skill when the user says any of:**
- "organ aging from proteomics"
- "proteomic clock" or "proteomics clock"
- "olink aging" or "olink clock"
- "Goeminne aging models"
- "plasma protein aging clocks"
- "organ-specific biological age"
- "predict organ age from Olink"

**Do NOT fire when:**
- User asks about methylation/epigenetic clocks → route to `methylation-clock`
- User asks about Olink differential abundance → route to future `affinity-proteomics` skill
- User asks about general protein structure → route to `struct-predictor`

## Why This Exists

- **Without it**: Researchers must manually download coefficients from the organAging GitHub repo, write R/Python scripts to multiply NPX values by weights, handle missing proteins, and convert mortality hazards to years
- **With it**: One command produces organ-specific biological age predictions, coverage reports, figures, and reproducibility bundles
- **Why ClawBio**: All coefficients come directly from the published organAging repo; no hallucinated parameters

## Core Capabilities

1. **Multi-organ prediction**: 23 organ-specific clocks (Adipose through Thyroid, plus Organismal, Multi-organ, Conventional)
2. **Two generations**: Gen1 (chronological age) and Gen2 (mortality-based with Gompertz conversion to years)
3. **Missing protein reporting**: Tracks which proteins are absent per organ, reports coverage percentage
4. **Runtime coefficient download**: Fetches latest coefficients from GitHub, caches locally

## Scope

**One skill, one task.** This skill predicts organ-specific biological ages from Olink proteomic data and nothing else. It does not perform differential abundance, QC, or normalisation.

## Input Formats

| Format | Extension | Required Fields | Example |
|--------|-----------|-----------------|---------|
| Olink NPX CSV | `.csv` | sample_id + protein columns | `olink_data.csv` |
| Olink NPX TSV | `.tsv` | sample_id + protein columns | `olink_data.tsv` |
| Compressed CSV | `.csv.gz` | sample_id + protein columns | `demo_olink_npx.csv.gz` |

Protein columns must use gene symbol names matching Olink nomenclature (e.g., NPPB, BMP10, UMOD).
Optional: `age` column for residual calculation, `sex` column.

## Workflow

1. **Load** input Olink NPX data (CSV/TSV)
2. **Download** elastic net coefficients from organAging GitHub (cached after first run)
3. **Predict** for each organ: gen1 age = intercept + sum(NPX * coef); gen2 hazard = sum(NPX * coef)
4. **Convert** gen2 log-hazards to years via Gompertz transform (optional)
5. **Report** missing proteins per organ, prediction summary, figures, reproducibility bundle

## CLI Reference

```bash
# Standard usage with Olink data
python skills/proteomics-clock/proteomics_clock.py \
  --input <olink_npx.csv> --output <report_dir>

# Select specific organs and generation
python skills/proteomics-clock/proteomics_clock.py \
  --input <olink_npx.csv> --organs Heart,Brain,Kidney --generation gen1 --output <dir>

# Demo mode
python skills/proteomics-clock/proteomics_clock.py --demo --output /tmp/proteomics_demo

# Keep gen2 as log-hazard (no Gompertz conversion)
python skills/proteomics-clock/proteomics_clock.py \
  --input <olink_npx.csv> --no-convert-mortality --output <dir>
```

## Demo

```bash
python skills/proteomics-clock/proteomics_clock.py --demo --output /tmp/proteomics_demo
```

Expected output: Predictions for 20 synthetic samples across heart, brain, kidney (and more) organ clocks, with distribution boxplots, correlation heatmap, and sample-organ heatmap.

## Algorithm / Methodology

1. **Coefficient source**: Elastic net models trained on UK Biobank Olink Explore 3072 data (Goeminne et al. 2025)
2. **Gen1 (chronological)**: Regularised linear regression trained to predict chronological age. Output = intercept + weighted sum of NPX values
3. **Gen2 (mortality-based)**: Cox elastic net trained on time-to-death. Output = relative log(mortality hazard)
4. **Gompertz conversion**: Assumes `age = (-avg_hazard + hazard) / slope - intercept` with population constants from UK Biobank
5. **Missing proteins**: Ignored (coefficients for absent proteins set to 0). Coverage reported per organ.

**Key constants (from organAging repo):**
- Gompertz intercept: -9.946
- Gompertz slope: 0.0898
- Average relative log-mortality hazard: -4.802

## Example Output

```markdown
# ClawBio Proteomics Clock Report

**Date**: 2026-04-10 12:00 UTC
**Input**: `demo_olink_npx.csv.gz`
**Samples**: 20
**Organs requested**: Heart, Brain, Kidney
**Generation**: both

## Prediction Summary

| Organ | Generation | N | Mean | Std |
|---|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Heart | gen1 | 20 | 62.45 | 8.32 |
| Brain | gen1 | 20 | 58.91 | 12.10 |
| Heart | gen2 | 20 | 65.12 | 9.87 |

*ClawBio is a research tool. Not a medical device.*
```

## Output Structure

From ClawBio/ClawBio, MIT.

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