Biopython

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Application data

Created by Biopython Project
Biological application domain(s) Sequence analysis, Phylogenetics, Population genetics, Protein structures
Principal bioinformatics method(s) Sequence parsing, command line tool wrappers, Programming Library
Created at Biopython Project, Open Bioinformatics Foundation
Maintained? Maybe
Input format(s) SFF, FASTA, FASTQ, QUAL, ace, PHD, phylip, clustalw, GenBank, EMBL, Nexus, PIR, ...
Output format(s) SFF, FASTA, FASTQ, QUAL, phylip, clustalw, GenBank, EMBL, Nexus, ...
Software features Various
Programming language(s) Python
Licence Biopython License
Operating system(s) Linux, Windows, MacOS X

Summary: The Biopython Project is an international association of developers of freely available Python (http://www.python.org) tools for computational molecular biology. The web site http://www.biopython.org provides an online resource for modules, scripts, and web links for developers of Python-based software for life science research.

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Biopython provides a tool kit for writing bioinformatics and computational molecular biology software in Python.

See also the Biopython Tutorial and Cookbook (PDF)