Biopython - Bioinformatics Library

Industry-standard Python library for computational biology and bioinformatics workflows.

When to Use

• Parsing and manipulating biological sequences (DNA, RNA, protein)
• Reading and writing sequence files (FASTA, FASTQ, GenBank, EMBL, SwissProt)
• Performing sequence alignments (pairwise and multiple)
• Running and parsing BLAST searches
• Analyzing protein structures from PDB files
• Calculating sequence statistics and molecular weights
• Translating DNA to protein sequences
• Finding restriction enzyme sites
• Building and analyzing phylogenetic trees
• Accessing NCBI databases (Entrez, PubMed)
• Computing sequence motifs and patterns
• Analyzing next-generation sequencing data