RNA.
distance
(other, metric=None)[source]¶Compute the distance to another sequence.
State: Experimental as of 0.4.0.
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Returns: | Distance between this sequence and other as defined by metric. |
Return type: | float |
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See also
skbio.sequence.distance()
, fraction_diff()
, fraction_same()
Examples
>>> from skbio import Sequence
>>> s = Sequence('GGUC')
>>> t = Sequence('AGUC')
Compute Hamming distance (the default metric):
>>> s.distance(t)
0.25
Use a custom metric:
>>> def custom_metric(s1, s2): return 0.42
>>> s.distance(t, custom_metric)
0.42