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Programación en el área de bioinformática utilizando Python como lenguaje de Programación

The purpose of this book is to show the reader how to use the Python programming language to facilitate and automate the wide variety of data manipulation tasks encountered in life science research and development. It is designed to be accessible to readers with a range of interests and backgrounds, both scientific and technical. It emphasizes practical programming, using meaningful examples of useful code. In addition to meeting the needs of individual readers, it can also be used as a textbook for a one-semester upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level course. This book is designed to teach you bioinformatics software development. There is no computational biology here: no statistics, formulas, equations—not even explanations of the algorithms that underlie commonly used informatics software. The book’s examples are all based on the kind of data life science researchers work with and what they do with it. The book focuses on practical data management and manipulation tasks. The term “data” has a wide scope here, including not only the contents of databases but also the contents of text files, web pages, and other information sources. Examples focus on genomics, an area that, relative to others, is more mature and easier to introduce to people new to the scientific content of bioinformatics, as well as dealing with data that is more amenable to representation and manipulation in software. Also, and not incidentally, it is the part of bioinformatics with which the author is most familiar.