Biopython: Freely Available Python Tools for Computational Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics

Overview

Journal Bioinformatics

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biology

Date 2009 Mar 24

PMID 19304878

Citations 2377

Authors

Peter J A Cock

Tiago Antao

Jeffrey T Chang

Brad A Chapman

Cymon J Cox

Andrew Dalke

Iddo Friedberg

Thomas Hamelryck

Frank Kauff

Bartek Wilczynski

Michiel J L de Hoon

Affiliations

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Abstract

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.

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