Technical requirements

The code for this chapter can be found in: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Bioinformatics-with-Python-Cookbook-Fourth-Edition/tree/main/Ch04You will want to create a Ch04 folder and set up your notebooks there. You’ll also need to get the data files from Ch02.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 specific to this chapter, before activating bioinformatics_base, run:

conda create -n ch04-data-science --clone bioinformatics_base
conda activate ch04-data-science

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 ch04-data-science.yml