[Biopython] Cogent package
Brad Chapman
chapmanb at 50mail.com
Wed Jun 23 13:13:20 UTC 2010
Jeff;
> I have been working with with the biopython package for about the
> past year (formerly worked with perl and dabbled in bioperl a bit)
> and somehow the pycogent package didn’t even cross my radar. I just
> discovered it by accident in a code search on the web. So how does
> pycogent relate to and compare with biopython? It seems that the most
> recent release of cogent (1.4.1) is fairly mature and contains a large
> amount and diversity of code.
PyCogent is definitely a useful library to have in your toolbelt.
It focuses a bit more on evolutionary and phylogenetic work, so will
give you extra functionality if you're working in those areas.
We'd hoped to develop formal interoperability with PyCogent,
and proposed a summer of code project along those lines:
http://biopython.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code#Biopython_and_PyCogent_interoperability
but unfortunately didn't get funded this year. A few other useful
Python biology projects are:
bx-python: http://bitbucket.org/james_taylor/bx-python/wiki/Home
DendroPy: http://packages.python.org/DendroPy/
Pygr: http://code.google.com/p/pygr/
It would be cool to see the Python bioinformatics community develop
documentation and examples of using multiple toolkits together.
Brad
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