[Biopython] Digital gene expression

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Sun Feb 12 12:27:12 UTC 2012


On Sunday, February 12, 2012, Michiel de Hoon <mjldehoon at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> EdgeR and DESeq are popular R packages to analyze differential
> expression in digital gene expression methodologies such as
> RNAseq and CAGE. Is something similar to these R packages
> available in Python (or is anybody working on such a module
> for Biopython)? Not that I don't like EdgeR / DESeq, but I'd
> prefer something in Python so that I can understand what I
> am doing.
>
> Thanks,
> -Michiel.

I'm not sure, but try rpy or rpy2 for calling these R libraries from
Python. If you know both languages it is very powerful.

Peter



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