Python Collections & Regex for Bioinformatics
When to Use
| Type | Use case |
|---|---|
list | ordered sequences, sliding windows, k-mer extraction |
tuple | fixed records: gene coords (name, chr, start, end), SNP (chr, pos, ref, alt) |
namedtuple | readable fixed records with field names; dict keys |
dict | codon table, gene lengths, annotations; O(1) access |
defaultdict(list/set/int) | grouping by chromosome, reverse codon table |
Counter | k-mer frequencies |
[Description truncada. Veja o README completo no GitHub.]