scikit-bio

scikit-bio (canonically pronounced sigh-kit-buy-oh) is a library for working with biological data in Python 3. scikit-bio is open source, BSD-licensed software that is currently under active development.

API Reference

• File I/O (skbio.io)
• Sequences (skbio.sequence)
• Alignments (skbio.alignment)
• Tree representations (skbio.tree)
• Constructing workflows (skbio.workflow)
• Diversity calculations (skbio.diversity)
• Statistics (skbio.stats)
• Metadata (skbio.metadata)
• Utility functionality (skbio.util)

User Documentation

The user documentation contains high-level information for users of scikit-bio.

• API Stability

Developer Documentation

The developer documentation contains information for how to contribute to scikit-bio.

• Coding guidelines
• Adding a new module to skbio