What is BioJava?

Biopython is a set of freely available tools for biological computation written in Python by an international team of developers.

Biopython versions and release dates are:

Biopython 1.80, November 18, 2022

Main features of Biopython:

• The ability to parse bioinformatics files into Python utilizable data structures, including support for multiple formats, including Blast, Clustalw, FASTA, GenBank, PubMed and Medline, ExPASy, SCOP, UniGene, and SwissProt.
• Files in the supported formats can be iterated over record by record or indexed and accessed via a Dictionary interface.
• Code to deal with popular on-line bioinformatics destinations such as: NCBI - Blast, Entrez and PubMed services; and ExPASy - Swiss-Prot and Prosite entries, as well as Prosite searches.
• Interfaces to common bioinformatics programs such as: Standalone Blast from NCBI; and Clustalw alignment program - EMBOSS command line tools.
• A standard sequence class that deals with sequences, ids on sequences, and sequence features.
• Tools for performing common operations on sequences, such as translation, transcription and weight calculations.
• Code to perform classification of data using k Nearest Neighbors, Naive Bayes or Support Vector Machines.
• Code for dealing with alignments, including a standard way to create and deal with substitution matrices.
• Code making it easy to split up parallelizable tasks into separate processes.
• GUI-based programs to do basic sequence manipulations, translations, BLASTing, etc.
• Extensive documentation and help with using the modules, including this file, on-line wiki documentation, the web site, and the mailing list.
• Integration with BioSQL, a sequence database schema also supported by the BioPerl and BioJava projects.

For more information, visit biopython.org.

⇒ Install Biopython

⇐ Biopython - Tools for Biological Computation

⇑ Biopython - Tools for Biological Computation

⇑⇑ OBF (Open Bioinformatics Foundation) Tools