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If the ends of each allele is the same nucleotide, it is not left aligned or parsimonious on the right side.
If the ends of each allele is the same nucleotide, it is not left aligned or parsimonious on the right side.
=== Proof of left alignment property ===
=== Proof of property ===
Suppose an indel is already left aligned. In order to shift the variant to the right, we have to be able to truncate the first leftmost nucleotide in each allele without any loss of information (i.e. we can reconstruct the original alleles from the right aligned version of the variant given the reference genome). In order to guarantee this, the first leftmost nucleotide in each allele should be the same type of nucleotide (in other words, the same as the reference nucleotide).
Suppose an indel is already left aligned. In order to shift the variant to the right, we have to be able to truncate the first leftmost nucleotide in each allele without any loss of information (i.e. we can reconstruct the original alleles from the right aligned version of the variant given the reference genome). In order to guarantee this, the first leftmost nucleotide in each allele should be the same type of nucleotide (in other words, the same as the reference nucleotide).
