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 * Created on June 7, 2010
 * Author: Mark Chapman
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package org.biojava.nbio.alignment.template;

import org.biojava.nbio.core.alignment.template.SequencePair;
import org.biojava.nbio.core.sequence.template.Compound;
import org.biojava.nbio.core.sequence.template.Sequence;

/**
 * Defines an {@link Aligner} for a pair of {@link Sequence}s.
 *
 * @author Mark Chapman
 * @param  each {@link Sequence} of the alignment pair is of type S
 * @param  each element of an {@link AlignedSequence} is a {@link Compound} of type C
 */
public interface PairwiseSequenceAligner, C extends Compound> extends Aligner,
		PairwiseSequenceScorer {

	/**
	 * Returns sequence alignment pair.
	 *
	 * @return sequence alignment pair
	 */
	SequencePair getPair();

}