bioutils – bioinformatics utilities and lookup tables¶
bioutils provides common utilities and lookup tables for bioinformatics.
bioutils.accessions – parse accessions, infer namespaces
bioutils.assemblies – Human assembly information (from NCBI/GRCh)
bioutils.cytobands – map cytobands to coordinates (from UCSC cytoband tables)
bioutils.digests – implementations of various digests
bioutils.normalize – allele normalization (left shuffle, right shuffle, expanded, vcf)
To use an E-Utilities API key run add it to an environment variable called ncbi_api_key and it will be used in the E-Utilities request.