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SUBMITTER: O'Boyle NM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2270842 | biostudies-other | 2008
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Chemistry Central journal 20080309
<h4>Background</h4>Scripting languages such as Python are ideally suited to common programming tasks in cheminformatics such as data analysis and parsing information from files. However, for reasons of efficiency, cheminformatics toolkits such as the OpenBabel toolkit are often implemented in compiled languages such as C++. We describe Pybel, a Python module that provides access to the OpenBabel toolkit.<h4>Results</h4>Pybel wraps the direct toolkit bindings to simplify common tasks such as read ...[more]