skbio.sequence.Protein.has_stops¶

Protein.has_stops()[source]¶

Determine if the sequence contains one or more stop characters.

State: Stable as of 0.4.0.

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

Examples

>>> from skbio import Protein
>>> s = Protein('PAW')
>>> s.has_stops()
False
>>> s = Protein('PAW*E*')
>>> s.has_stops()
True