Questions tagged [bioinformatics]

If you have any questions about programming in the field of Bioinformatics, feel free to ask here. Any other unrelated questions should be directed to bioinformatics where they may be more relevant.

"Troubleshooting Issues with NCBI's blastp Command Line Tool

My goal is to automate the process of performing blast outputs from multiple files within a directory. While the variables are currently hardcoded, they will eventually be defined by users. The plan involves changing the input files through a loop in Pytho ...

How can one determine if a genomic position falls within any interval using the pyranges library?

I have two files: one is a .vcf file containing information about variants, and the other is a .bed file containing details about the regions studied. I am utilizing the pyranges library to read the .bed file. My goal is to filter out all variants in the . ...

Issue encountered: Module not found error persists even though the module is installed and appears in the list generated by pip

After installing biopython and related modules, I attempted to load them with the following code: from BCBio.GFF import GFFExaminer import pprint from BCBio import GFF However, I encountered the following error: ----------------------------------------- ...

Error: custom Python function received a string instead of bytes

Recently, I've been exploring a new bioinformatics tool known as Giggle and successfully set up the python wrapper on my system. Despite the specific nature of my current situation, I believe the issue at hand is quite common. index = Giggle.create(" ...