Technical requirements

You will find the code for this chapter at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Bioinformatics-with-Python-Cookbook-Fourth-Edition/tree/main/Ch05.Create a GitHub folder named Ch05 for your notebooks. Inside it, make a subdirectory called data for our practice files.Remember to activate your conda environment before beginning the recipes, like this:

conda activate bioinformatics_base

Or, if you would like to set up a conda environment specifically for this chapter, before activating bioinformatics_base, run the following:

conda create -n ch05-alignment --clone bioinformatics_base
conda activate ch05-alignment

You will be able to install the packages for the chapter as you go, or you can use the YAML file provided in the repository:

conda env update --file ch05-alignment.yml