Summary

Bio::LiveSeq::DNA - DNA object for LiveSeq

Package variables

Inherit

Bio::LiveSeq::SeqI

Synopsis

  # documentation needed

Description

This holds the DNA sequence (or the RNA in the case of cDNA entries)
and is accessed by exons, genes, transcripts... objects

Methods

Methods description

  Title   : new
  Usage   : $dna = Bio::LiveSeq::DNA->new(-seq => "atcgaccaatggacctca",
					  -offset => 3 );

  Function: generates a new Bio::LiveSeq::DNA
  Returns : reference to a new object of class DNA
  Errorcode -1
  Args    : a string
        AND an optional offset to create nucleotide labels (default is 1, i.e.
            starting the count of labels from "1") -> do not bother using it ->
            it could be used by alternative loaders !EMBL format
  NOTE    : strand of DNA is set to 1 by default

Methods code

sub new {

  my ($thing, %args) = @_;
  my $class = ref($thing) || $thing;
  my (%empty,$obj);

  if ($args{-seq}) {
    $obj = $thing->string2chain($args{-seq},$args{-offset}); # inherited from ChainI
    $obj = bless $obj, $class;
  } else {
    $obj=\%empty;
    $obj = bless $obj, $class;
    $obj->throw("$class not initialized properly");
  }

  $obj->{'alphabet'}='dna'; # set alphabet default
  $obj->{'strand'}=1; # set strand default = 1
  $obj->{'seq'}=$obj; # set seq field to itself

  return $obj;

}

sub start {

  my $self = shift;
  return $self->{'begin'}; # the chain's start is called begin

}

sub length {

  my $self=shift;
  return $self->chain_length();

}

sub valid {

  my $self=shift(@_);
  return $self->label_exists(@_);

}

General documentation

Email: Insana@ebi.ac.uk, jinsana@gmx.net

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methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _