skbio.sequence.Protein.has_gaps¶

Protein.has_gaps()[source]¶

Determine if the sequence contains one or more gap characters.

State: Stable as of 0.4.0.

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

Examples

>>> from skbio import DNA
>>> s = DNA('ACACGACGTT')
>>> s.has_gaps()
False
>>> t = DNA('A.CAC--GACGTT')
>>> t.has_gaps()
True