Biopython: freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology and bioinformatics

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  • Peter J A Cock
  • Tiago Antao
  • Jeffrey T Chang
  • Brad A Chapman
  • Cymon J Cox
  • Andrew Dalke
  • Iddo Friedberg
  • Hamelryck, Thomas Wim
  • Frank Kauff
  • Bartek Wilczynski
  • Michiel J L de Hoon
SUMMARY: The Biopython project is a mature open source international collaboration of volunteer developers, providing Python libraries for a wide range of bioinformatics problems. Biopython includes modules for reading and writing different sequence file formats and multiple sequence alignments, dealing with 3D macro molecular structures, interacting with common tools such as BLAST, ClustalW and EMBOSS, accessing key online databases, as well as providing numerical methods for statistical learning. AVAILABILITY: Biopython is freely available, with documentation and source code at (www.biopython.org) under the Biopython license.
Original languageEnglish
JournalBioinformatics
Volume25
Issue number11
Pages (from-to)1422-3
Number of pages1
ISSN1367-4803
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009

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Keywords: Computational Biology; Databases, Factual; Internet; Programming Languages; Software

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