© Alexander Lancaster and Gordon Webster 2019
A. Lancaster, G. WebsterPython for the Life Scienceshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4523-1_6

6. Finding Needles in Haystacks

Regular Expressions for Genomics and Sequencing
Alexander Lancaster1  and Gordon Webster1
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Amber Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA
 

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“Oh dear!” said the White Rabbit. “I’m running late for the lab meeting and I still have a mountain of gene sequencing data to process.”

Having abandoned his calculator and spreadsheets and forked over a king’s ransom for some fancy desktop application for handling gene data, the White Rabbit was still frustrated. The application that had seemed like ...

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