Many tasks in computational biology are dependent on the existence of reference genomes. If you are performing a sequence alignment, finding genes, or studying genetics of populations at several points of your work, you will be directly or indirectly using a genome reference. In this chapter, we will develop some recipes to work with reference genomes and deal with varying quality of references (which can vary for high-quality, like with the human genome, to problematic with non-model species). We will also see how to deal with genome annotations (working with text databases that will point us to interesting features in the genome) and extract sequence data using the annotation information. Also, we will try to find some gene orthologues across species. Finally, we will access a gene ontology (GO) database.
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Overview of this book
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Python and the Surrounding Software Ecology
Next-generation Sequencing
Working with Genomes
Population Genetics
Population Genetics Simulation
Phylogenetics
Using the Protein Data Bank
Other Topics in Bioinformatics
Python for Big Genomics Datasets
Index
Customer Reviews