skbio.alignment.Alignment.majority_consensus¶

Alignment.majority_consensus(constructor=None)[source]¶

Return the majority consensus sequence for the Alignment

Note

constructor parameter deprecated in scikit-bio 0.2.0-dev constructor parameter will be removed in scikit-bio 0.3.0 as its most common use is to convert to str, and this functionality is already accessible by calling str on the returned BiologicalSequence (e.g., str(seq)).

Parameters:

Parameters:	constructor : function, optional Constructor function for creating the consensus sequence. By default, this will be the same type as the first sequence in the Alignment.
Returns:	skbio.sequence.BiologicalSequence The consensus sequence of the Alignment. In other words, at each position the most common character is chosen, and those characters are combined to create a new sequence. The sequence will not have its ID, description, or quality set; only the consensus sequence will be set.

constructor : function, optional

Constructor function for creating the consensus sequence. By default, this will be the same type as the first sequence in the Alignment.

Returns:

skbio.sequence.BiologicalSequence

The consensus sequence of the Alignment. In other words, at each position the most common character is chosen, and those characters are combined to create a new sequence. The sequence will not have its ID, description, or quality set; only the consensus sequence will be set.

Notes

If there are two characters that are equally abundant in the sequence at a given position, the choice of which of those characters will be present at that position in the result is arbitrary.

Examples

>>> from skbio.alignment import Alignment
>>> from skbio.sequence import DNA
>>> sequences = [DNA('AC--', id="seq1"),
...              DNA('AT-C', id="seq2"),
...              DNA('TT-C', id="seq3")]
>>> a1 = Alignment(sequences)
>>> a1.majority_consensus()
<DNASequence: AT-C (length: 4)>