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Hello All,<br>
<br>
This is not a Biopython specific posting, yet I believe it may
interest many Biopython users.<br>
<br>
PythonCyc allows you to interact with <a
href="http://bioinformatics.ai.sri.com/ptools/">Pathway Tools</a>
using the Python programming language.<br>
The latest version of Pathway Tools (19.0) was just released (for
all release notes of Pathway Tools, please see <a
href="http://bioinformatics.ai.sri.com/ptools/release-notes.html">Released
Notes</a>). <br>
Please see below for more details on a complete API documentation
and a tutorial for PythonCyc.<br>
<br>
-- Mario Latendresse
<br>
Computer Scientist
<br>
SRI International<br>
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<h1><small>PythonCyc: A Python Interface for Pathway Tools</small></h1>
<p> It is now possible to use the Python programming language to
query
and modify an organism database (i.e., a PGDB) of Pathway Tools
via the
newly developed PythonCyc package. You will need a recent version
of
Pathway Tools, that is, version 18.5 (November 2014) or version
19.0 (March 2015), to use
PythonCyc.
</p>
<ul>
<li>PythonCyc is hosted on <a
href="http://github.com/latendre/PythonCyc">GitHub</a>. To use
PythonCyc, you will have to download it from GitHub and install
it on your local computer.
</li>
<li>The <a
href="https://github.com/latendre/PythonCyc/blob/master/doc/tutorial.md">PythonCyc
tutorial</a> describes how to install PythonCyc and the main
functionalities available. </li>
<li>PythonCyc has over 150 functions to interact with Pathway
Tools.
In particular, you can extract and manipulate all data from
PGDBs and modify your own PGDBs by using the well-known Python
programming language.
</li>
<li>You can access MetaFlux, a Flux Balance Analysis tool, via
PythonCyc.
</li>
<li>The complete <a href="http://pythoncyc.readthedocs.org">PythonCyc
API
documentation</a> is available online.
</li>
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