skbio.sequence.Protein.degenerates

Protein.degenerates()

Find positions containing degenerate characters in the sequence.

Returns:

1D np.ndarray (bool)

Boolean vector where True indicates a degenerate character is present at that position in the biological sequence.

See also

has_degenerates

definites

has_definites

Examples

>>> from skbio import DNA
>>> s = DNA('ACWGN')
>>> s.degenerates()
array([False, False,  True, False,  True], dtype=bool)