HierarchicalClusterer (biojava 5.2.0 API)

Type Parameters:

S - each Sequence in the tree is of type S

C - each element of a Sequence is a Compound of type C
```
public interface HierarchicalClusterer<S extends Sequence<C>,C extends Compound>
```
Defines a clustering algorithm that converts a distance matrix into a tree.

Author:

Mark Chapman

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`float[][]`	`getDistanceMatrix()`	Returns the distance matrix used in clustering.
`GuideTreeNode<S,C>`	`getRoot()`	Returns the root node of the tree resulting from this clustering algorithm.

- Method Detail
  - getDistanceMatrix
```
float[][] getDistanceMatrix()
```
    Returns the distance matrix used in clustering. May be calculated from another original source.
    
    Returns:
    
    the distance matrix input to clustering
  - getRoot
```
GuideTreeNode<S,C> getRoot()
```
    Returns the root node of the tree resulting from this clustering algorithm.
    
    Returns:
    
    the resulting tree output from clustering