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. 2022 Dec 22;13:7884. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-35596-5

Table 1.

The definition of all IUPAC characters and the list of all possible two-partitions for each IUPAC character

IUPAC code Set Two-partitions
S {C,G} (C,G)
W {A,T} (A,T)
R {A,G} (A,G)
Y {C,T} (C,T)
K {G,T} (G,T)
M {A,C} (A,C)
B {C,G,T} (C,G), (G,Y), (T,S)
D {A,G,T} (A,K), (G,W), (T,R)
H {A,C,T} (A,Y), (C,W), (T,M)
V {A,C,G} (A,S), (C,R), (G,M)
N {A,C,G,T} (A,B), (C,D), (G,H), (T,V), (R,Y), (S,W), (K,M)