Python for biologists

Now published: Biological Data Exploration

A complete guide to cleaning, manipulating and visualizing complex biological datasets with Python

If you’re looking for the exercise files for any of my books, click here.

If you want to get started with writing Python code take a look at the Python for biolgists online course.

If you’re looking for instructor-led training courses, check out my training courses designed around biology and bioinformatics.

Recent articles

Don’t trust univariate feature selection

This has come up a few times in recent courses so I’m putting an explanation here with real code and data so that I have something to point people at. Given the complexities…

Inventing new animals with a neural network

I’ve just built a new computer to do some deep learning experiments, so I though’d I’d start off by checking that everything is working with a fun project - training a…

Machine learning series

Machine learning is programming by example. There are a couple of different categories of problems that fall into the machine learning category. The easiest to…

Python tutorial

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Randomly sampling reads from a FASTQ file

Attention readers: this article is about how to write a Python program to randomly sample reads from a FASTQ file. If you just want to run the program, save it from this link…