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*Bringing the Pandas DataFrame to phylogenetics.*

PhyloPandas provides a Pandas-like interface for reading various sequence formats into DataFrames. This enables easy manipulation of phylogenetic data using familiar Python/Pandas functions. Finally, phylogenetics for humans!

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How does it work?
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Don't worry, we didn't reinvent the wheel. **PhyloPandas** is simply a DataFrame_
(great for human-accessible data storage) interface on top of Biopython_ (great for parsing/writing sequence data).

.. _DataFrame: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas
.. _Biopython: https://github.com/biopython/biopython

Basic Usage
~~~~~~~~~~~

Read sequence file into DataFrame.

.. code-block:: python

  import phylopandas as ph

  df1 = ph.read_fasta('sequences.fasta')

Write ``phylopandas.DataFrame`` data to sequence file.

.. code-block:: python

  df1.to_clustal('sequences.clustal')

Convert between two sequence formats.

.. code-block:: python

  # Read from fasta.
  df = phypd.read_fasta('sequences.fasta')

  # Write to phylip.
  df.to_phylip('sequences.phy')

See the Cookbook_ page for more things you can do.

.. _Cookbook: _pages/cookbook.html

Contributing
~~~~~~~~~~~~

It's *easy* to create new read/write functions and methods for PhyloPandas. If you
have a format you'd like to add, please submit PRs! There are many more formats
in Biopython that I haven't had the time to add myself, so please don't be afraid
to add then yourself! I thank you ahead of time!


Table of Contents
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   :maxdepth: 1

   _pages/dataframe
   _pages/cookbook


Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`