acm4r (version 1.0)

call_bablbs: BABLBS (Band Added Band Lost Band Substituted)

Description

BABLBS clustering means that two fingerprints match if they differ only through a lost band, a gained band, or a substituted band

Usage

call_bablbs(intable, minmatch = 2)

Arguments

intable

is the name of the acm table.

minmatch

is the threshold of band number such that two lanes are matching if and only if the number of matching bands between them is more than minmatch.

Value

a matrix of 2 columns where each row represents a pair of matching lanes.

References

Salamon et. al (1998) Accommodating Error Analysis in Comparison and Clustering of Molecular Fingerprints. Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 4, No. 2, April-June 1998

Abasci LLC. JAMES v1.0 User Documentation. 2002.

Examples

#bablbs, GD1, and GD2 all work with the results from call_acm
#now check matching by bablbs
res_bab<-call_bablbs(res1)

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