© Alexander Lancaster and Gordon Webster 2019
A. Lancaster, G. WebsterPython for the Life Scienceshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4523-1_3

3. Making Sense of Sequences

Biological Sequences and Python Data Structures
Alexander Lancaster1  and Gordon Webster1
(1)
Amber Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA
 

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“You are indeed most odd,” said Alice to the bird. “You’re all length and no width, and one end of you looks so much like the other that it’s hard to know which end to talk to.”

“In common with all other birds, I start from my head and run down to my feet,” said the bird. “Just stretch me out alongside any other bird and you’ll see that we’re all made ...

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