From 592749a7c1517439fb2e5c631ad5024932c723ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: depristo <depristo@348d0f76-0448-11de-a6fe-93d51630548a>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:01:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] isNBase method

git-svn-id: file:///humgen/gsa-scr1/gsa-engineering/svn_contents/trunk@2513 348d0f76-0448-11de-a6fe-93d51630548a
---
 java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/BaseUtils.java | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/BaseUtils.java b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/BaseUtils.java
index fbedf4388..d6738e7e0 100644
--- a/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/BaseUtils.java
+++ b/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/utils/BaseUtils.java
@@ -147,6 +147,11 @@ public class BaseUtils {
         return isRegularBase((char)base);
     }
 
+    static public boolean isNBase(byte base) {
+        return base == 'N';
+    }
+
+
     /**
      * Converts a base index to a simple base
      *