November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
9h 36m
English
Content preview from Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook - Second Edition
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Getting ready
To access data, we will use Biopython and the REST API (we used a similar approach in Chapter 3, Working with Genomes) with the requests library to access web APIs. The requests API is an easy-to-use wrapper for web requests that can be installed using standard Python mechanisms (for example, pip and conda). You can find this content in the Chapter07/Intro.ipynb Notebook file.