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filter.by.conservation: Filters columns (sequence positions) by conservation

Description

Filters columns based on the relative information content of each column which is the standard information content normalized to the interval [0,1], where 0 corresponds to uniform distribution and 1 to perfect conservation of one nucleotide or amino acid, respectively.

Usage

filter.by.conservation(relative.ic)

Value

function that, given a DLData object, returns TRUE

for every column that does not exceed the specified relative information content

Arguments

relative.ic

the maximum relative information content allowed to retain a position

Author

Jan Grau <[e-mail]>

Examples

fun <- filter.by.conservation(relative.ic = 0.9)