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Our ability to read the genetic code of organisms and to use DNA sequencing to learn new biology has benefited tremendously from technological advances in the past ten years. My lab looks at how animals get colonized with specific bacteria. As we have been generating more data it has become clear that we are underutilizing the information. We are beginning to build resources to be more efficient and clever at data processing and data mining from biological samples. I'll talk a little about the science in the lab and show one of our Python projects that is functional but in its early stages. I am eager for feedback, and I think the talk will have resonance for a new motivated Python user in any field.