Biopython Tutorial and Cookbook

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Last Update – 21 June 2018 (Biopython 1.72)The Biopython Project is an international association of developers of freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology. Python is an object-oriented, interpreted, flexible language that is becoming increasingly popular for scientific computing. Python is easy-to-learn, has a very clear syntax and can easily be extended with modules written in C, C++ or FORTRAN.The Biopython web site provides an online resource for modules, scripts, and web links for developers of Python-based software for bioinformatics use and research. Basically, the goal of Biopython is to make it as easy as possible to use Python for bioinformatics by creating high-quality, reusable modules and classes. Biopython features include parsers for various Bioinformatics file formats (BLAST, Clustalw, FASTA, Genbank...), access to online services (NCBI, Expasy...), interfaces to common and not-so-common programs (Clustalw, DSSP, MSMS...), a standard sequence class, various clustering modules, a KD tree data structure, etc.. and even documentation.Basically, we just like to program in Python and want to make it as easy as possible to use Python for bioinformatics by creating high-quality, reusable modules and scripts.