Archive for the ‘HOWTO’ Category

Clever tricks with NCBI Entrez EInfo (& Biopython)

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Constructing complicated NCBI Entrez searches can be tricky, but it turns out one of the Entrez Programming Utilities called Entrez EInfo can help. For example, suppose you want to search for mitochondrial genomes from a given taxa - either just in the Entrez web interface, for use in a script with ...

Introducing (and expanding) the Biopython Cookbook

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Hi all, You may have noticed we're trying out using the wiki for Biopython cookbook entries. It's a new idea so at the moment there are only a few 'recipes' on offer. If you have some tricks you find yourself using time and again to solve a problem why not ...

HOWTO automate tree drawing

Friday, June 15th, 2007

I updated the Trees HowTo with some code demonstrating how to automatically generate postscript trees from newick or nexus tree files. This uses the Bio::Tree::Draw::Cladogram module that will draw Phylograms or Cladograms. With a few unix tools (eps2png and epstopdf [part of TeX]) you can generate png and pdf ...