biotite 0.8.1

A comprehensive framework for computational molecular biology

The Biotite package bundles popular tools in computational biology into an unifying framework. It offers file I/O operations, analyses and manipulations for biological sequence and structure data. Furthermore, the package provides interfaces for popular biological databases and external software.

The internal structure and sequence representations are based on NumPy ndarrays, taking the advantage of C-accelerated operations. Time consuming operations that could not be vectorised are mostly implemented in Cython in order to achieve C-accelerations in those places, too.

Additionally the package aims for simple usability and extensibility: The objects representing structures and sequences can be indexed and scliced like an ndarray. Even the actual internal ndarrays are easily accessible allowing advanced users to implement their own algorithms upon the existing types.