Utilities

Constants

pyfamsa.MIQS: scoring_matrices.ScoringMatrix

The MIQS scoring matrix proposed by Yamada & Tomii (2014), used by default in FAMSA for scoring alignments.

pyfamsa.FAMSA_ALPHABET: str

The alphabet used by FAMSA to encode input sequences.

Functions

pyfamsa.famsa_info()

Get information about the embedded FAMSA version.

This function returns an anonymous named tuple with attributes version, version_info, date and authors that can be used to get the build information from FAMSA.

Example

>>> info = famsa_info()
>>> info.version
'2.2.2'
>>> info.date
datetime.date(2022, 10, 9)