Data Handling and Manipulation

It is not unusual that data needs to be tranformed before being used in any method or algorithm (pre-processing) or after it has been generated (post-processing). Here, we provide a generic implementation to transform an array of data into another array of data of the same size. Our implementation utilizes a callback mechanism that is responsible to transform any source value to a specific target value.

We already provide a handful of useful transformation functions through our utils/math:mathematical functions API, e.g. linear functions, logarithms, logistic functions, but also bining and kernel density estimation (KDE). However, our choice to implement callback mechanism based transformation function(s) allows the users to implement any transformation function themselfs. This enables a wide range of possible adaptations of other methods throughout the ViennaRNA library that are build on top of the transformation functions.