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Sebastian Bassi, Fran Lewitter
This article introduces the world of the Python computer language. It is assumed that readers have some previous programming experience in at least one computer language and are familiar with basic concepts such as data types, flow control, and functions. Python can be used to solve several problems that research…
Berk Ekmekci, Charles E. McAnany, Cameron Mura, Francis Ouellette
Computing has revolutionized the biological sciences over the past several decades, such that virtually all contemporary research in molecular biology, biochemistry, and other biosciences utilizes computer programs. The computational advances have come on many fronts, spurred by fundamental developments in hardware…
Charles R. Harris, K. Jarrod Millman, Stéfan J. van der Walt, Ralf Gommers + 22 more
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Knut Rand, Ivar Grytten, Milena Pavlovic, Chakravarthi Kanduri + 1 more
Python is a popular and widespread programming language for scientific computing, in large part due to the powerful array programming library NumPy, which makes it easy to write clean, vectorized and efficient code for handling large datasets. A challenge with using array programming for biological data is that the…
Theodoros Giannakopoulos, Gianni Pavan
Audio information plays a rather important role in the increasing digital content that is available today, resulting in a need for methodologies that automatically analyze such content: audio event recognition for home automations and surveillance systems, speech recognition, music information retrieval, multimodal…
Leonid Bystrykh
Genome biology shows substantial progress in its analytical and computational part in the last decades. Differential gene expression is one of many computationally intense areas; it is largely developed under R programming language. Here we explain possible reasons for such dominance of R in gene expression data. Next…
Vasudha Jha, Robert H. Cudmore
Brightest path tracing is a widely used image processing technique in several fields including biology, geography, and geology. However, despite the availability of many image processing libraries in Python, few offer an out-of-the-box implementation of a bright-est path tracing algorithm. This paper presents a Python…
Mauro Silberberg, Henning Hermjakob, Rahuman S. Malik-Sheriff, Hernán E. Grecco
Chemical Reaction Networks (CRNs) play a pivotal role in diverse fields such as systems biology, biochemistry, chemical engineering, and epidemiology. High-level modelling of CRNs enables various simulation approaches, including deterministic and stochastic methods. However, existing Python tools for CRN modelling…
Endre Bakken Stovner, Pål Sætrom
Complex genomic analyses often use sequences of simple set operations like intersection, overlap, and nearest on genomic intervals. These operations, coupled with some custom programming, allow a wide range of analyses to be performed. To this end, we have written PyRanges, a data structure for representing and…
Alex M. Ascension, Marcos J. Araúzo-Bravo
Big Data analysis is a discipline with a growing number of areas where huge amounts of data is extracted and analyzed. Parallelization in Python integrates Message Passing Interface via mpi4py module. Since mpi4py does not support parallelization of objects greater than 2^31^ bytes, we developed BigMPI4py, a Python…
Boris Yamrom, Yoon-ha Lee, Steven Marks, Lubomir Chorbadjiev + 2 more
Snakemake is one of the most popular workflow management systems, particularly in biological sciences. Snakemake workflows are highly portable, scalable, and transparent. Moreover, they enable the painless reproduction of published results and adaption to similar data processing and analysis projects. Here we present…
Tyler Kolisnik, Faeze Keshavarz-Rahaghi, Rachel Purcell, Adam Smith + 1 more
Random Forest models are widely used in genomic data analysis and can offer insights into complex biological mechanisms, particularly where features influence the target in interactive, non-linear, or non-additive ways. Currently, some of the most efficient random forest methods, in terms of computational speed, are…
Yury V. Zaytsev, Abigail Morrison
NEST is a simulator for large-scale networks of spiking point neuron models (Gewaltig and Diesmann, [11]). Originally, simulations were controlled via the Simulation Language Interpreter (SLI), a built-in scripting facility implementing a language derived from PostScript (Adobe Systems, Inc., [1]). The introduction of…