Gap

Provides the gap alphabet and functionality to make an alphabet a gapped alphabet. More...

Collaboration diagram for Gap:

Classes
class	seqan3::gap
	The alphabet of a gap character '-'. More...

Typedefs
template<typename alphabet_t >
using	seqan3::gapped = alphabet_variant< alphabet_t, gap >
	Extends a given alphabet with a gap character. More...

Detailed Description

Provides the gap alphabet and functionality to make an alphabet a gapped alphabet.

Introduction

The gap symbol (-) is used in alignments to represent an interruption in an alignment, usually the result of an insertion or deletion. The seqan3::gap alphabet represents this (single) gap symbol and satisfies the seqan3::Alphabet.

The main purpose of seqan3::gap is to be combined with other alphabets. This can easily be achieved by using the seqan3::gapped<> template which transforms any other alphabet to be a composite of that alphabet + the gap character.

Typedef Documentation

gapped

template<typename alphabet_t >

using seqan3::gapped = typedef alphabet_variant<alphabet_t, gap>

Extends a given alphabet with a gap character.

Template Parameters

alphabet_t

Type of the letter, e.g. dna4; must satisfy seqan3::WritableAlphabet.

The gapped alphabet represents the variant of a given alphabet and the seqan3::gap alphabet (e.g. the four letter DNA alphabet + a gap character).

The gapped alphabet may be brace initialized from the static letter members of the underlying alphabet and the seqan3::gap alphabet. Note that you cannot assign the alphabet by using letters of type char, but you instead have to use the function assign_char() of the underlying alphabet or seqan3::gap::assign_char().

gapped<dna4> gapped_letter{};
gapped<dna4> converted_letter{'C'_dna4};
gapped<dna4> gap_letter{gap{}};
// doesn't work:
// gapped<dna4> my_letter{'A'};

gapped<dna4>{}.assign_char('C'); // <- this does!
gapped<dna4>{}.assign_char('-'); // gap character
gapped<dna4>{}.assign_char('K'); // unknown characters map to the default/unknown
                                 // character of the given alphabet type (i.e. A of dna4)

See also

For more details see alphabet_variant, which is the base class and more general than the gapped Alphabet.