Python and bioinformatics

Abstract

Bioinformatics is a field that analyzes and organizes data produced by the scientific community, like experimental results, sequences, protein structures, regulation models.

Over the course of time it evolved in a true science: thanks to the spreading of technologies that made easier and cheaper to produce raw data, the analysis part became more and more important over time, finally developing a scientific approach to programming, where a biologic hypothesis can be tested and verified just by using existing data, without the need for a traditional laboratory

During the talk some challenges undertaken by bioinformatics will be presented, along with some foresights.

One part will be focused on introducing the present state of opensource python libraries used on the field, like biopython and pygr, and some use case examples.