skbio.sequence.GrammaredSequence.has_nondegenerates#

GrammaredSequence.has_nondegenerates()[source]#

Determine if sequence contains one or more non-degenerate characters.

Returns:
bool

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

Warning

has_nondegenerates is deprecated as of 0.5.0. It has been renamed to has_definites.

See also

definites
has_definites
degenerates
has_degenerates

Examples

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