Gets or sets gap open penalty for use in alignment algorithms. For alignments using a linear gap penalty, this is the gap penalty. For alignments using an affine gap, this is the penalty to open a new gap. This is a negative number, for example GapOpenCost = -8, not +8.

public int GapOpenCost { get; set; }

Public Property GapOpenCost As Integer
	Get
	Set

public:
property int GapOpenCost {
	int get ();
	void set (int value);
}

member GapOpenCost : int with get, set