Python Programming for Biology: Bioinformatics and Beyond

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See discussion in

Chapter 3

.

2

 See

http://www.cambridge.org/pythonforbiology

 for  information  about  how  to

download and install PIL.

3

See

http://www.cambridge.org/pythonforbiology

.

4

Synonymous with standard score or Z-value normalisation.

5

For probability distributions, the sum of such values gives the Shannon relative entropy.

6

Hamming distance or Shannon mutual information entropy would be examples.

7

In Python no function is truly private given that it can be accessed from an object if you

know what its internal, ‘mangled’ name is.

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 Note  that  due  to  a  bug  in  PIL  at  the  time  of  writing,  an  extra  line  data  =

array(data.tolist()) is required for proper function.

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