Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.

Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection.

Serves as the default hash function.

Gets the Type of the current instance.

Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.

Calculate alignment score of a set of aligned sequences. The score is the average over all pairs of sequences of their pairwise alignment score.

Calculate pairwise score of a pair of aligned sequences. The score is the sum over all position score given by the similarity matrix. The positions with only indels, e.g. gaps, are discarded. Gaps in the remaining columns are assessed affined score: g + w * e, where g is open penalty, and e is extension penalty.

Returns a string that represents the current object.