Introduction to Sequence Alignments with Biopython

Using the sequence alignment software wrappers in Biopython

Last week I started playing around with some bioinformatics tools in Python with the library Biopython. In my previous post, I introduced the field of bioinformatics and provided an example of downloading data from GenBank with Biopython’s API interface. Today, I want to move to a typical next step for analyzing DNA sequence data — the alignment process. I’ll give an introduction to sequence alignments, and then give a brief example of using…