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Sequences are a key part of biology, and in this chapter, we introduce the Python features that make it a wonderful tool for storing, searching, and analyzing protein and nucleic sequences. If Python’s facility for handling sequences was its only appeal to life scientists, that alone would make it worthy of its place in the biologist’s toolbox.
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Lancaster, A., Webster, G. (2019). Making Sense of Sequences. In: Python for the Life Sciences. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4523-1_3
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