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Difference score
Description
Measures the difference score between two aligned amino acid or nucleotide sequences.
Usage
dif(seq1, seq2, gap = FALSE, aa.strict = FALSE)
Arguments
seq1 |
a character vector representing a first sequence. |
seq2 |
a character vector representing a second sequence. |
gap |
a boolean indicating whether the gap character should be taken as a supplementary symbol (TRUE) or not (FALSE). Default is FALSE. |
aa.strict |
a boolean indicating whether only strict amino acids should be taken into account (TRUE) or not (FALSE). Default is FALSE. |
Details
The difference score between two aligned sequences is given by the proportion of sites that differs and is equivalent to 1 - {PID}
(percent identity).
dif
is given by the number of aligned positions (sites) whose symbols differ, divided by the number of aligned positions. dif
is equivalent to the p distance defined by Nei and Zhang (2006).
In dif
, positions with at least one gap can be excluded (gap = FALSE). When gaps are taken as a supplementary symbol (gap = TRUE), sites with gaps in both sequences are excluded.
From Nei and Zhang (2006), the p distance, which is the proportion of sites that differ between two sequences, is estimated by:
{p} = \frac{n_d}{n},
where n is the number of sites and n_d
is the number of sites with different symbols.
The difference score ranges from 0, for identical sequences, to 1, for completely different sequences.
Value
A single numeric value representing the difference score.
Author(s)
Julien Pele
References
May AC (2004) Percent sequence identity: the need to be explicit. Structure 12:737-738.
Nei M and Zhang J (2006) Evolutionary Distance: Estimation. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences.
Nei M and Kumar S (2000) Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics. Oxford University Press, New York.
Examples
# calculating the difference score between the sequences
# of CLTR1_HUMAN and CLTR2_HUMAN:
aln <- import.fasta(system.file("msa/human_gpcr.fa", package = "bios2mds"))
dif <- dif(aln$CLTR1_HUMAN, aln$CLTR2_HUMAN)
dif