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bookChallenge: Score Sequence Alignments

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Write a Python function that takes two DNA sequences of equal length and returns a tuple with the number of matches, mismatches, and gaps in the alignment.

  • Compare the characters of seq1 and seq2 at each position.
  • Count a match when the characters are the same and not a gap.
  • Count a mismatch when the characters are different and neither is a gap.
  • Count a gap whenever either character is '-'.
  • Return a tuple in the form (matches, mismatches, gaps).

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bookChallenge: Score Sequence Alignments

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Task

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Write a Python function that takes two DNA sequences of equal length and returns a tuple with the number of matches, mismatches, and gaps in the alignment.

  • Compare the characters of seq1 and seq2 at each position.
  • Count a match when the characters are the same and not a gap.
  • Count a mismatch when the characters are different and neither is a gap.
  • Count a gap whenever either character is '-'.
  • Return a tuple in the form (matches, mismatches, gaps).

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