[BioPython] Plotting with Python

[Michiel de Hoon]

I have been using python with C extension modules to do numerical 
analysis of gene expression data (cDNA microarray). While python is 
excellent for doing numerical analysis, the problem is that there does 
not seem to be a good package for creating plots with Python, except for 
Gist, which uses X Windows and does not run under Windows. The other 
packages that I have found on the web do not support interactive work 
(that is, as soon as a graphics window is opened, the python prompt is 
not available until the window is closed). Commercial codes such as 
matlab support such interactive work, and it would be nice if Python 
could do the same. Does anybody have any suggestions on what to use for 
scientific plotting with Python?
Thanks -- Michiel.

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Michiel de Hoon, Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Tokyo, Institute of Medical Science
Human Genome Center
4-6-1 Shirokane-dai, Minato-ku
Tokyo 108-8639
Japan
http://bonsai.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~mdehoon