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Compared to the first edition of this book, this recipe is now highly simplified. There are two main reasons for this: the bioconda package, and the fact that we only need to support Anaconda as it has become a standard. If you feel strongly against using Anaconda, you will be able to install many of the Python libraries via pip. You will probably need quite a few compilers and build tools—not only C compilers, but also C++ and Fortran.