added ambiguity to hamming_distance

[biopieces.git] / code_ruby / lib / maasha / seq.rb

diff --git a/code_ruby/lib/maasha/seq.rb b/code_ruby/lib/maasha/seq.rb
index e4b6bfd7c27d5933d0bd9c6b65210bd9a7b32ea0..73bf0552938cef82fa937aa43ff7be23b190c94b 100644 (file)
--- a/code_ruby/lib/maasha/seq.rb
+++ b/code_ruby/lib/maasha/seq.rb
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ autoload :BackTrack,   'maasha/seq/backtrack'
 autoload :Dynamic,     'maasha/seq/dynamic'
 autoload :Homopolymer, 'maasha/seq/homopolymer'
 autoload :Levenshtein, 'maasha/seq/levenshtein'
+autoload :Ambiguity,   'maasha/seq/ambiguity'
 
 # Residue alphabets
 DNA     = %w[a t c g]
@@ -384,8 +385,12 @@ class Seq
 
   # Method to determine the Hamming Distance between
   # two Sequence objects (case insensitive).
-  def hamming_distance(entry)
-    self.seq.upcase.hamming_distance(entry.seq.upcase)
+  def hamming_distance(entry, options = nil)
+    if options and options[:ambiguity]
+      Ambiguity.hamming_distance(self.seq, entry.seq)
+    else
+      self.seq.upcase.hamming_distance(entry.seq.upcase)
+    end
   end
 
   # Method to determine the Edit Distance between