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Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS) (by biopython)
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Validated, scalable, community developed variant calling, RNA-seq and small RNA analysis (by bcbio)
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Biopython
Posts with mentions or reviews of Biopython.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-12.
- Invitación a proyecto - Biopython en Español
- Biopython – Python Tools for Computational Molecular Biology
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comparing the similarity between a set of protein sequences
Usearch will do all-against-all comparisons, cluster sequences, and produce alignments for each cluster. You can set the clustering threshold (proportion of residues identical). The alignments are in fasta format, which is pretty standard. If all you want is basic similarity it might be easiest to just write something that calculates normalized Hamming distances (typically called p-distances in the molecular evolution literature) between pairs of sequences. I suspect the biopython fasta reader (you can install biopython from https://biopython.org/) will be good enough.
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u/Responsible-Gas3852 comments on "Why is Cancer so Hard to Cure?"
Yes, the computing tool for biological computation.
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My boss is considering letting me take a programming course if I have some good reasons why.
Beside that their core lectures to non-computer scientists are public (survey), workshops by software carpentry move around the globe. Maybe your intent to seed hands-on knowledge is in similar tune before heading for biopython, bioperl, bioawk. It doesn't hurt to tap into resources initially written for non-labrats either, e.g. about regular expressions by programming historian.
- Can you run ScanProsite locally?
- How to iterate over the whole GRCh38 genome with python?
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Help they’re turning me into a programmer
Well, what language do you want to learn? What is your background so far? Assuming it is more on the side of biology, software carpentry's Python may eventually lead to biopython? Though there equally is a chance for AWK (Hack the planet's text! and bioawk...
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Biology related exercices and "challenges" to train by myself
I think you mind find something of a community around BioPython, which might be helpful. Just looking at the capabilities will probably be instructive as well.
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Joining the Open Source Development Course
Python is the main programming language I use nowadays. In particular numpy and pandas are of course extremely useful. I also use biopython package - a collection of software tools for biological computation written in Python by an international group of researchers and developers.
bcbio-nextgen
Posts with mentions or reviews of bcbio-nextgen.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
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Deep Sleep May Be the Best Defense Against Alzheimer’s
Re WGS there are a lot of well established tool chains that are FLOSS (eg https://github.com/bcbio/bcbio-nextgen). You could run alignment and variant calling on a beefy workstation. A laptop would potentially work. Easy to test this with publicly available raw data. Another option: The sequencing provider often will run alignment and some default variant calling for you. Annotating and analysing these variants can be done on pretty much any computer, all with open source software. A SNP chip is even easier to deal with as the computational requirements are less.
Interpreting the results is a more manual process. Really depends on what you are interested in.
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Advices on how to advance in the field to a beginner
There are plenty of workshops and free documentation online, a few from the top of my head : https://hbctraining.github.io/main/, https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/, https://github.com/bcbio/bcbio-nextgen.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Biopython and bcbio-nextgen you can also consider the following projects:
RDKit - The official sources for the RDKit library
Pandas - Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
biotite - A comprehensive library for computational molecular biology
orange - 🍊 :bar_chart: :bulb: Orange: Interactive data analysis
bioconda-recipes - Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Numba - NumPy aware dynamic Python compiler using LLVM
NumPy - The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
Dask - Parallel computing with task scheduling
PyDy - Multibody dynamics tool kit.