skbio.sequence.GrammaredSequence.has_definites¶

GrammaredSequence.has_definites()[source]¶

Determine if sequence contains one or more definite characters

State: Stable as of 0.5.0.

Returns:	bool Indicates whether there are one or more occurrences of definite characters in the biological sequence.

See also

definites, degenerates, has_degenerates

Examples

>>> from skbio import DNA
>>> s = DNA('NWNNNNNN')
>>> s.has_definites()
False
>>> t = DNA('ANCACWWGACGTT')
>>> t.has_definites()
True