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Sequence Properties

The Sequence type exposes the following members.

Properties
  NameDescription
Public propertyAlphabet
Gets or sets the alphabet to which symbols in this sequence belongs to.
Public propertyCount
Gets the number of bytes contained in the Sequence.
Public propertyID
Gets or sets an identifier for this instance of sequence class.
Public propertyItem
Returns the byte found at the specified index if within bounds. Note that the index value starts at 0.
Public propertyMetadata
Gets or sets the Metadata of this instance. Many sequence representations when saved to file also contain information about that sequence. Unfortunately there is no standard around what that data may be from format to format. This property allows a place to put structured metadata that can be accessed by a particular key.

For example, if species information is stored in a particular Species class, you could add it to the dictionary by:

mySequence.Metadata["SpeciesInfo"] = mySpeciesInfo;

To fetch the data you would use:

Species mySpeciesInfo = mySequence.Metadata["SpeciesInfo"];

Particular formats may create their own data model class for information unique to their format as well. Such as:

GenBankMetadata genBankData = new GenBankMetadata(); // ... add population code mySequence.MetaData["GenBank"] = genBankData;.

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