Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook - Second Edition

Performing basic sequence analysis

We will now do some basic analysis on DNA sequences. We will work with FASTA files and do some manipulation, such as reverse complementing or transcription. As with the previous recipe, we will use Biopython, which you installed in Chapter 1, Python and the Surrounding Software Ecology. These two recipes provide you with the necessary introductory building blocks with which we will perform all the modern NGS analysis and then genome processing in this and the next chapter, Chapter 3, Working with Genomes.