# Copyright 2014-2020 by Christopher C. Little.
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"""abydos.distance._ncd_bwtrle.
NCD using BWT plus RLE
"""
from ._ncd_rle import NCDrle
from ..compression import BWT
__all__ = ['NCDbwtrle']
[docs]
class NCDbwtrle(NCDrle):
"""Normalized Compression Distance using BWT plus RLE.
Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows-Wheeler_transform
Normalized compression distance (NCD) :cite:`Cilibrasi:2005`.
.. versionadded:: 0.3.6
"""
_bwt = BWT()
[docs]
def dist(self, src: str, tar: str) -> float:
"""Return the NCD between two strings using BWT plus RLE.
Parameters
----------
src : str
Source string for comparison
tar : str
Target string for comparison
Returns
-------
float
Compression distance
Examples
--------
>>> cmp = NCDbwtrle()
>>> cmp.dist('cat', 'hat')
0.75
>>> cmp.dist('Niall', 'Neil')
0.8333333333333334
>>> cmp.dist('aluminum', 'Catalan')
1.0
>>> cmp.dist('ATCG', 'TAGC')
0.8
.. versionadded:: 0.3.5
.. versionchanged:: 0.3.6
Encapsulated in class
"""
if src == tar:
return 0.0
src_comp = self._rle.encode(self._bwt.encode(src))
tar_comp = self._rle.encode(self._bwt.encode(tar))
concat_comp = self._rle.encode(self._bwt.encode(src + tar))
concat_comp2 = self._rle.encode(self._bwt.encode(tar + src))
return (
min(len(concat_comp), len(concat_comp2))
- min(len(src_comp), len(tar_comp))
) / max(len(src_comp), len(tar_comp))
if __name__ == '__main__':
import doctest
doctest.testmod()