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21 package jalview.api.analysis;
24 * An interface that describes classes that can compute similarity (aka
25 * substitution) scores for pairs of residues
27 public interface PairwiseScoreModelI
30 * Answers a similarity score between two sequence characters (for
31 * substitution of the first by the second). Typically the highest scores are
32 * for identity, and the lowest for substitution of a residue by one with very
33 * different properties.
39 abstract public float getPairwiseScore(char c, char d);
40 // TODO make this static when Java 8