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Noel M O'Boyle, Chris Morley, Geoffrey R Hutchison
Background Scripting languages such as Python are ideally suited to common programming tasks in cheminformatics such as data analysis and parsing information from files. However, for reasons of efficiency, cheminformatics toolkits such as the OpenBabel toolkit are often implemented in compiled languages such as C++. We…
Steven Shave, Yan-Kai Chen, Nhan T. Pham, Manfred Auer
Understanding multicomponent binding interactions in protein-ligand, protein-protein and competition systems is essential for fundamental biology and drug discovery. Hand deriving equations quickly becomes unfeasible when the number of components is increased, and direct analytical solutions only exist to a certain…
Yangyang Li, Rendong Yang
We introduce PxBLAT, a Python library designed to enhance usability and efficiency in interacting with the BLAST-like alignment tool (BLAT). PxBLAT provides an intuitive application programming interface (API) design, allowing the incorporation of its functionality directly into Python-based bioinformatics workflows.…
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…
Yangyang Li, Rendong Yang
Background With the surge in genomic data driven by advancements in sequencing technologies, the demand for efficient bioinformatics tools for sequence analysis has become paramount. BLAST-like alignment tool (BLAT), a sequence alignment tool, faces limitations in performance efficiency and integration with modern…
Pierre Fernique, Christophe Pradal, Nick Higham
Most of Python and R scientific packages incorporate compiled scientific libraries to speed up the code and reuse legacy libraries. While several semi-automatic solutions exist to wrap these compiled libraries, the process of wrapping a large library is cumbersome and time consuming. In this paper, we introduce…
Dilawar Singh, Steven S. Andrews
Smoldyn is a particle-based biochemical simulator that is frequently used for systems biology and biophysics research. Previously, users could only define models using text-based input or a C/C++ applicaton programming interface (API), which were convenient, but limited extensibility. We added a Python API to Smoldyn…
David Miguel Susano Pinto, Mick A Phillips, Nicholas Hall, Julio Mateos–Langerak + 5 more
Custom built microscopes often require control of multiple hardware devices and precise hardware coordination. It is also desirable to have a solution that is scalable to complex systems and translatable between components from different manufacturers. Here we report Python-Microscope, a free and open source Python…
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…
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…
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…