Biopython

Overview

• Biopython is a set of freely available tools for biological computation written in Python by an international team of developers.

• The standard Biopython package and release supports the following formats:

  • Blast output – both from standalone and WWW Blast

  • Clustalw

  • FASTA

  • GenBank

  • PubMed and Medline

  • ExPASy files, like Enzyme and Prosite

  • SCOP, including ‘dom’ and ‘lin’ files

  • UniGene

  • SwissProt

Using

Use the module name biopython to discover versions available and to load the application. Also note the version of Python this has been installed against.

Note: On Beartooth, a version of this module is automatically loaded as part of the localizer application