Table 3.

Python packages used in the GenomeQC web-application and standalone application

Python package	Short Description
Sys, os, argparse, re, traceback, subprocess, collections [28]	Standard libraries and modules that are distributed with the python installation. These packages provide access to system-specific parameters and functions, functionality to interact with the operating systems, parse command line arguments, etc.
Bio [29]	Provides functionality for computation of biological sequence data
Statistics [30]	Provides functionality for mathematical computation
Numpy [31]	Fundamental package for scientific computing
Bio.Blast.Applications [13]	Provides the NCBI BLAST command line utility for python
Iglob [32]	Package to find files in the directory through pattern matching
Pandas [33]	Python library for data analysis and manipulation
Plotly.offline plotly.graph_objs [34]	Python package for creating interactive plots
Matplotlib [35]	Provides plotting functionality to python for data visualization
email.mime.text, email.mime.application email.mime.multipart, smtplib [36]	Python package that provides email handling functionality to python