srdistance {ShortRead} | R Documentation

## Edit distances between reads and a small number of short references

### Description

`srdistance` calculates the edit distance from each read in `pattern` to each read in `subject`. The underlying algorithm `pairwiseAlignment` is only efficient when both reads are short, and when the number of `subject` reads is small.

### Usage

    srdistance(pattern, subject, ...)

### Arguments

`pattern` | An object of class `DNAStringSet` containing reads whose edit distance is desired.
`subject` | A short `character` vector, `DNAString` or (small) `DNAStringSet` to serve as reference.
`...` | additional arguments, unused.

### Details

The underlying algorithm performs pairwise alignment from each read in `pattern` to each sequence in `subject`. The return value is a list of numeric vectors of distances, one list element for each sequence in `subject`. The vector in each list element contains for each read in `pattern` the edit distance from the read to the corresponding subject. The weight matrix and gap penalties used to calculate the distance are structured to weight base substitutions and single base insert/deletions equally. Edit distance between known and ambiguous (e.g., N) nucleotides, or between ambiguous nucleotides, are weighted as though each possible nucleotide in the ambiguity were equally likely.

### Value

A list of length equal to that of `subject`. Each element is a numeric vector equal to the length of `pattern`, with values corresponding to the minimum distance between between the corresponding pattern and subject sequences.

### Author(s)

Martin Morgan <mtmorgan@fhcrc.org>

### See Also

`pairwiseAlignment`

### Examples

    sp <- SolexaPath(system.file("extdata", package="ShortRead"))
    aln <- readAligned(sp, "s_2_export.txt")
    polyA <- polyn("A", 35)
    polyT <- polyn("T", 35)

    d1 <- srdistance(clean(sread(aln)), polyA)
    d2 <- srdistance(sread(aln), polyA)
    d3 <- srdistance(sread(aln), c(polyA, polyT))

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