alphabetScore {ShortRead} | R Documentation

## Efficiently calculate the sum of quality scores across bases

### Description

This generic takes a `QualityScore` or `PhredQuality` object and calculates, for each read, the sum of the encoded nucleotide probabilities.

### Usage

    alphabetScore(object, ...)

### Arguments

`object` | An object of class `QualityScore`.
`...` | Additional arguments, currently unused.

### Value

A vector of numeric values of length equal to the length of `object`.

### Author(s)

Martin Morgan <mtmorgan@fhcrc.org>

[Package ShortRead version 1.42.0 Index]