[Biopython] python advice needed

[Frederico Moraes Ferreira]

Hi Csaba,
Have a look on these free books.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9eRIc-w3cjVV0ZZSmxSUWZDdVU/edit?usp=sharing
They certainly will help you a lot.
Best,

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Dr. Frederico Moraes Ferreira
University of Sao Paulo
Heart Institute, School of Medicine
Laboratoy of Immunology
Av. Dr. Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar, 44
05403-900     Sao Paulo - SP
Brasil


Em 15-04-2014 11:58, Csaba Kiss escreveu:
> Hi!
> I need some advice how to get better in python. I have written a 
> software package to analyze antibody deep sequencing data. This was my 
> first experience with python and I am not a programmer. The end result 
> works, however, if a professional coder looks at the scripts, it is 
> obvious that it was written by an amateur. I am planning to re-write 
> the code into a better format that is extendable and more user and 
> coder friendly. At the moment the script only relies on biopython to 
> get the sequences and quality values out of sff and fastq files, the 
> rest is custom written. I would like to rely more on biopython and 
> also perhaps extend biopython with new features.
> The problem I am having is object oriented python and classes. I 
> understand the concept of both, but it's completely different to 
> actually use it. I would like to ask help from scientist who are in a 
> similar situation, as myself. I am a molecular biologist with interest 
> in coding, but little background. Do you have any good tutorials books 
> about python classes and OOP? For example, when I learned python I 
> found the Google python class, extremely valuable. I practically 
> looked at the videos and solved the problems and that sent me on my 
> way to python:
> https://developers.google.com/edu/python/?csw=1
>
> Any help would be appreciated:
> Csaba
>