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Complement a DNA sequence

Suppose I have a DNA sequence. I want to get the complement of it. I used the following code but …

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Traceback in Smith-Wateman algorithm with affine gap penalty

I'm trying to implement the Smith-Waterman algorithm for local sequence alignment using the affine gap penalty function. I think I …

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How to extract the first hit elements from an XML NCBI BLAST file?

Im trying to extract only the first hit from an NCBI xml BLAST file. next I would like to get …

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Traceback in dynamic programming implementation of Needleman-Wunsch algorithm

I almost have my needleman-wunsch implementation working but I am confused on how to handle the traceback on a specific …

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Efficient file buffering & scanning methods for large files in python

The description of the problem I am having is a bit complicated, and I will err on the side of …

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SeqIO.parse on a fasta.gz

New to coding. New to Pytho/biopython; this is my first question online, ever. How do I open a compressed …

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