Installing the required basic software with Anaconda
Next, we will begin setting up your required software libraries, including Python itself. If you are already using a different Python distribution, you are strongly encouraged to consider Anaconda, as it has become the de facto standard for data science and bioinformatics. Also, it is the distribution that will allow you to install software from bioconda (https://bioconda.github.io/).
Getting ready
Python can be run on top of different environments. For instance, you can use Python inside the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) (via Jython or with .NET via IronPython). However, here, we are not only concerned with Python but also with the complete software ecology around it. Therefore, we will use the standard (CPython) implementation, since the JVM and .NET versions exist mostly to interact with the native libraries of these platforms.For our code, we will be using Python 3.12. If you were starting with Python and bioinformatics, any operating...
