November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
9h 36m
English
Content preview from Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook - Second Edition
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Traversing genome annotations
Having a genome sequence is interesting, but we will want to extract features from it, such as genes, exons, and coding sequences. This type of annotation information is made available in Generic Feature Format (GFF) and General Transfer Format (GTF) files. In this recipe, we will look at how to parse and analyze GFF files, using the annotation of the Anopheles gambiae genome as an example.