def sequencetyper(self):
        """
        Determines the sequence type of each strain based on comparisons to sequence type profiles
        """
        for sample in self.metadata.samples:
            if sample.general.bestassemblyfile != 'NA':
                if type(sample[self.analysistype].allelenames) == list:
                    #
                    if sample[self.analysistype].profile != 'NA':
                        # Initialise dictionaries
                        sample[self.analysistype].profilematches = dict()
                        sample[self.analysistype].sequencetypematches = dict()
                        # Create the profiledata variable to avoid writing self.profiledata[self.analysistype]
                        profiledata = sample[self.analysistype].profiledata
                        # For each gene
                        for gene in sorted(sample[self.analysistype].allelenames):
                            try:
                                allelenumber = sample[self.analysistype].allelematches[gene].split('-')[1]
                                # Find the profile with the most alleles in common with the query genome
                                for sequencetype in profiledata:
                                    # refallele is the allele number of the sequence type
                                    refallele = profiledata[sequencetype][gene]
                                    if allelenumber == refallele:
                                        # Add matching alleles
                                        try:
                                            sample[self.analysistype].profilematches[sequencetype] += 1
                                            sample[self.analysistype].sequencetypematches[sequencetype].append(
                                                refallele)
                                        except KeyError:
                                            sample[self.analysistype].profilematches[sequencetype] = 1
                                            sample[self.analysistype].sequencetypematches[sequencetype] = list()
                                            sample[self.analysistype].sequencetypematches[sequencetype].append(
                                                refallele)
                            except KeyError:
                                pass