Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook

Discover modern, next-generation sequencing libraries from Python ecosystem to analyze large amounts of biological data

Key Features

• Perform complex bioinformatics analysis using the most important Python libraries and applications
• Implement next-generation sequencing, metagenomics, automating analysis, population genetics, and more
• Explore various statistical and machine learning techniques for bioinformatics data analysis

Book Description

What you will learn

• Learn how to process large next-generation sequencing (NGS) datasets
• Work with genomic dataset using the FASTQ, BAM, and VCF formats
• Learn to perform sequence comparison and phylogenetic reconstruction
• Perform complex analysis with protemics data
• Use Python to interact with Galaxy servers
• Use High-performance computing techniques with Dask and Spark
• Visualize protein dataset interactions using Cytoscape
• Use PCA and Decision Trees, two machine learning techniques, with biological datasets

Who this book is for

This book is for Data data Scientistsscientists, Bioinformatics bioinformatics analysts, researchers, and Python developers who want to address intermediate-to-advanced biological and bioinformatics problems using a recipe-based approach. Working knowledge of the Python programming language is expected.