Post tagged: biosequences

Hitchhikers guide to Biopython: Sequences & alphabets

(Originally published on BiocodersHub.)

If you’re doing bioinformatics in Python, you’re probably using Biopython. Actually, Biopython is a good reason for using Python. But it can be formidable to newcomers: there’s a lot there and there’s not a huge amount of learning material. This then is …

Hitchhikers guide to BioPython: SeqRecords

(Previously published on BiocodersHub.)

Previously I'd spoken about how Biopython represents sequence data with the Seq class. But there is also the SeqRecord class:

• A Seq is just raw sequence data and information about what type of sequence it is.
• A SeqRecord is a Seq and all the other information …