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/*  $Id: blast_encoding.h 36670 2008-01-24 21:22:19Z camacho $
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/** @file blast_encoding.h
 *  Declarations of static arrays used to define some NCBI encodings to be used
 *  in a toolkit independent manner by the BLAST engine.
 */
 
#ifndef ALGO_BLAST_CORE___BLAST_ENCODING__H
#define ALGO_BLAST_CORE___BLAST_ENCODING__H
 
#include <algo/blast/core/ncbi_std.h>
#include <algo/blast/core/blast_export.h>
 
/** @addtogroup AlgoBlast
 *
 * @{
 */
 
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
 
/** Different types of sequence encodings for sequence retrieval from the 
 * BLAST database 
 */
typedef enum { 
    eBlastEncodingProtein       = 0, /**< NCBIstdaa */
    eBlastEncodingNucleotide    = 1, /**< Special encoding for preliminary 
                                       stage of BLAST: permutation of NCBI4na.
                                       A.k.a.: BLASTNA encoding
                                      */
    eBlastEncodingNcbi4na       = 2, /**< NCBI4na */
    eBlastEncodingNcbi2na       = 3, /**< NCBI2na */
    eBlastEncodingError         = 255 /**< Error value for encoding */
} EBlastEncoding;
 
/* Nucleotide encodings */
 
/** Translates between ncbi4na and blastna. The first four elements
 *  of this array match ncbi2na. */
NCBI_XBLAST_EXPORT extern const Uint1 NCBI4NA_TO_BLASTNA[];
 
/** Translates between blastna and ncbi4na. */
NCBI_XBLAST_EXPORT extern const Uint1 BLASTNA_TO_NCBI4NA[];
 
/** Translates between iupacna and blastna. */
NCBI_XBLAST_EXPORT extern const Uint1 IUPACNA_TO_BLASTNA[];
 
/** Translates between iupacna and ncbi4na. */
NCBI_XBLAST_EXPORT extern const Uint1 IUPACNA_TO_NCBI4NA[];
 
/** Translates between ncbieaa and ncbistdaa. */
NCBI_XBLAST_EXPORT extern const Uint1 AMINOACID_TO_NCBISTDAA[];
 
/** Translates between ncbieaa and ncbistdaa. */
NCBI_XBLAST_EXPORT extern const char NCBISTDAA_TO_AMINOACID[];
 
/** Translates between blastna and iupacna. */
NCBI_XBLAST_EXPORT extern const char BLASTNA_TO_IUPACNA[];
 
/** Translates between ncbi4na and iupacna. */
NCBI_XBLAST_EXPORT extern const char NCBI4NA_TO_IUPACNA[];
 
#define BLAST2NA_SIZE 4     /**< Size of compressed nucleic acid alphabet */
#define BLASTNA_SIZE 16     /**< Size of nucleic acid alphabet */
#define BLASTAA_SIZE 28     /**< Size of aminoacid alphabet */
 
 
#define BLASTNA_SEQ_CODE 99 /**< Identifies the blastna alphabet, for use in 
                                blast only. */
#define BLASTAA_SEQ_CODE 11 /**< == Seq_code_ncbistdaa */
#define NCBI4NA_SEQ_CODE 4  /**< == Seq_code_ncbi4na */ 
 
/** Sentinel byte for protein sequences */
NCBI_XBLAST_EXPORT extern const Uint1 kProtSentinel;
/** Sentinel nibble for nucleotide sequences */
NCBI_XBLAST_EXPORT extern const Uint1 kNuclSentinel;
 
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
 
/* @} */
 
#endif  /* ALGO_BLAST_CORE___BLAST_ENCODING__H */