 Alignment column information content (source code)

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= Alignment column information content
{title2=$R_i=\log_2(20)-H(X_i)$}

For an <amino acid> alignment, this <relative entropy> measures departure of the nongap <empirical distribution> in a column from the uniform distribution on the twenty standard <amino acids>.

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