skbio.sequence.GrammaredSequence.has_degenerates

GrammaredSequence.has_degenerates()

Determine if sequence contains one or more degenerate characters.

State: Stable as of 0.4.0.

Returns

Indicates whether there are one or more occurrences of degenerate characters in the biological sequence.

Return type

bool

See also

degenerates(), definites(), has_definites()

Examples

>>> from skbio import DNA
>>> s = DNA('ACAC-GACGTT')
>>> s.has_degenerates()
False
>>> t = DNA('ANCACWWGACGTT')
>>> t.has_degenerates()
True