Allegra Via, Kristian Rother, Anna Tramontano

Managing Your Biological Data with Python

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Requiring no prior programming experience, this text empowers biologists and other life scientists to work with biological data on their own using the Python language. The book teaches them not only how to program but also how to manage their data. It shows how to read data from files in different formats, analyze and manipulate the data, and write the results to a file or computer screen. Every piece of code in the text is aimed at solving real biological problems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 154mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 829g
• ISBN-13: 9781439880937
• ISBN-10: 143988093X
• Artikelnr.: 37602765

Autorenporträt

Allegra Via, Kristian Rother, Anna Tramontano

Inhaltsangabe

Getting Started: The Python Shell. Your First Python Program. Data
Management: Analyzing a Data Column. Parsing Data Records. Searching Data.
Filtering Data. Managing Tabular Data. Sorting Data. Pattern Matching and
Text Mining. Modular Programming: Divide a Program into Functions. Managing
Complexity with Classes. Debugging. Using External Modules: The Python
Interface to R. Building Program Pipelines. Writing Good Programs. Data
Visualization: Creating Scientific Diagrams. Creating Molecule Images with
PyMOL. Manipulating Images. Biopython: Working with Sequence Data.
Retrieving Data from Web Resources. Working with 3D Structure Data.
Cookbook. Appendices.