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Table 1 Classification of candidate characters

From: DeSignate: detecting signature characters in gene sequence alignments for taxon diagnoses

Vector metrics

 

Classes

d-power

q-rank

r-rank

 

Binary

1

1

1

\(\left.\begin {array}{l} \\ \\ \end {array}\right \rbrace { \parbox {0.5cm}{signature \\ characters}}\)

Asymmetric

1

1

>1

 

Noisy

<1

1

>1

 

Conserved

<1

1

1