skbio.alignment.Alignment.sequence_length

Alignment.sequence_length()[source]

Return the number of positions in Alignment

Returns:

int

The number of positions in Alignment.

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.sequence_length()
4