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Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Shane Brubaker
December 2025
Beginner to intermediate
618 pages
14h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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Computer Specifications and Python Setup

We will start by installing the basic software that is required for most of this book. This will include the Python distribution, some fundamental Python libraries, and our Jupyter Notebook environment. We will also set up our GitHub environment and gain access to the repository for the book. As different users have different requirements, we will cover two different approaches for installing the software. One approach is using the Anaconda Python (http://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/) distribution and the other is via Docker (a server virtualization method based on containers sharing the same operating system kernel; please refer to https://www.docker.com/). This will still install Anaconda for you but ...

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ISBN: 9781836642756