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Bio::Biblio::IO::medline2ref - A converter of a raw hash to MEDLINE citations

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Bio::Root::Root

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Methods code

BEGIN {

     # set the version for version checking
    $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$$Revision: 1.10 $ =~ /\d+/g); sprintf "%d.%-02d", @r };
    $Revision = q$$Id: medline2ref.pm,v 1.10 2002/10/22 07:45:13 lapp Exp $;

}

sub _convert_article {

    my ($article, $source) = @_;
    my $from_article = $$source{'article'};

    $article->title ($$from_article{'articleTitle'}) if defined $$from_article{'articleTitle'};
    $article->affiliation ($$from_article{'affiliation'}) if defined $$from_article{'affiliation'};
    $article->vernacular_title ($$from_article{'vernacularTitle'}) if defined $$from_article{'vernacularTitle'};
    $article->date_of_electronic_publication
	($$from_article{'dateOfElectronicPublication'}) if defined $$from_article{'dateOfElectronicPublication'};

    if (defined $$from_article{'pagination'}) {
	my $pagination = $$from_article{'pagination'};
	$article->first_page ($$pagination{'startPage'}) if defined $$pagination{'startPage'};
	$article->last_page ($$pagination{'endPage'}) if defined $$pagination{'endPage'};
	$article->medline_page ($$pagination{'medlinePgn'}) if defined $$pagination{'medlinePgn'};
    }

    if (defined $$from_article{'abstract'}) {
	my $abstract = $$from_article{'abstract'};
	$article->abstract ($$abstract{'abstractText'}) if defined $$abstract{'abstractText'};
	$article->abstract_type ('text/plain');
	$article->rights ($$abstract{'copyrightInformation'}) if defined $$abstract{'copyrightInformation'};
    }

    if (defined $$from_article{'languages'}) {
	my $languages = $$from_article{'languages'};  # ref-array
	if ( @{ $languages } > 0) {
	    $article->language ( $$languages[0] );
	}
	if ( @{ $languages } > 1) {
	    $article->other_languages (join (',', @{ $languages }));
	}
    }

    my @authors = &_convert_providers ($$from_article{'authors'});
    if (@authors) {
	$article->authors (\@authors);
	$article->author_list_complete
	    ($$from_article{'authorListComplete'}) if defined $$from_article{'authorListComplete'};
    }

    # references to database entries are prefixed with database name
    # (separated by a slash)
    use Bio::Annotation::DBLink;
    if (defined $$from_article{'dataBanks'}) {
	my $databanks = $$from_article{'dataBanks'};  # a ref-array
	my @references;
	foreach my $bank ( @{ $databanks } ) {
	    my $db_name = $$bank{'dataBankName'};
	    if (defined $$bank{'accessionNumbers'}) {
		foreach my $accn ( @{ $$bank{'accessionNumbers'} } ) {
		    my $dblink = new Bio::Annotation::DBLink (-primary_id => $accn);
		    $dblink->database ($db_name);   # it does not matter if it is undef
		    push (@references, $dblink);
		}
	    }
	}
	if (@references) {
	    $article->cross_references (\@references);
	    $article->cross_references_list_complete
		($$from_article{'dataBankListComplete'}) if defined $$from_article{'dataBankListComplete'};
	}
    }

    # grants are stored in an array of hashtables (each of the
    # hashtables has keys agency, grantID and acronym)
    $article->grants ($$from_article{'grants'}) if defined $$from_article{'grants'};
    $article->grant_list_complete
	    ($$from_article{'grantListComplete'}) if defined $$from_article{'grandListComplete'};

}

#
# takes a ref-array of providers - they can be persons or
# organisations, and returns an array of converted providers
#

}

sub _convert_book_article {

    my ($result, $source) = @_;
    my $article = $$source{'article'};

    # create and populate both book and resulting article objects
    my $from_book = $$article{'book'};
    my $book = new Bio::Biblio::MedlineBook;
    $book->title ($$from_book{'title'}) if defined $$from_book{'title'};
    $book->volume ($$from_book{'volume'}) if defined $$from_book{'volume'};
    $book->series ($$from_book{'collectionTitle'}) if defined $$from_book{'collectionTitle'};

    if (defined $$from_book{'pubDate'}) {
	my $pub_date = $$from_book{'pubDate'};
	my $converted = &_convert_date ($pub_date);
	$result->pub_date ($converted) if defined $converted;

	# Some parts of a MEDLINE date are stored just as properties
	# because they have almost non-parseable format :-).
	$result->medline_date ($$pub_date{'medlineDate'}) if defined $$pub_date{'medlineDate'};
	$result->season ($$pub_date{'season'}) if defined $$pub_date{'season'};
    }

    if (defined $$from_book{'publisher'}) {
	my $publisher = new Bio::Biblio::Organisation;
	$publisher->name ($$from_book{'publisher'});
        $book->publisher ($publisher);
    }

    my @authors = &_convert_providers ($$from_book{'authors'});
    $book->authors (\@authors) if @authors;

    $result->book ($book);
    &_convert_article ($result, $source);
}

#
# takes from $source article related attributes and convert them into
# $article (these attributes are the same both for journal and book
# articles
#

}

sub _convert_date {

    my ($date) = @_;
    return undef unless
	exists $$date{'year'} or
	    exists $$date{'month'} or
		exists $$date{'day'} or
		    exists $$date{'hour'} or
			exists $$date{'minute'} or
			    exists $$date{'second'};


    my $converted = (exists $$date{'year'} ? $$date{'year'} : '0000');

    if (exists $$date{'month'}) {
	$converted .= '-' . $$date{'month'};
    } elsif (exists $$date{'day'}) {
	$converted .= '-00';
    }

    if (exists $$date{'day'}) {
	$converted .= '-' . $$date{'day'};
    } elsif (exists $$date{'hour'}) {
	$converted .= '-00';
    }

    if (exists $$date{'hour'}) {
	$converted .= 'T' . $$date{'hour'} .
	    ':' . (exists $$date{'minute'} ? $$date{'minute'} : '00') .
		':' . (exists $$date{'second'} ? $$date{'second'} : '00') . 'Z';
    }
    return $converted;
}

# $person is a hash with persons attributes - we need to create and
# return a Bio::Biblio::Person object

}

sub _convert_journal_article {

    my ($result, $source) = @_;
    my $article = $$source{'article'};

    # create and populate both a Journal and a resulting Article objects
    my $from_journal = $$article{'journal'};
    my $journal = new Bio::Biblio::MedlineJournal;
    $journal->name ($$from_journal{'title'}) if defined $$from_journal{'title'};
    $journal->issn ($$from_journal{'iSSN'}) if defined $$from_journal{'iSSN'};
    $journal->abbreviation ($$from_journal{'iSOAbbreviation'}) if defined $$from_journal{'iSOAbbreviation'};
    $journal->coden ($$from_journal{'coden'}) if defined $$from_journal{'coden'};
    if (defined $$from_journal{'journalIssue'}) {
	my $issue = $$from_journal{'journalIssue'};
	$result->volume ($$issue{'volume'}) if defined $$issue{'volume'};
	$result->issue ($$issue{'issue'}) if defined $$issue{'issue'};

	if (defined $$issue{'pubDate'}) {
	    my $pub_date = $$issue{'pubDate'};
	    my $converted = &_convert_date ($pub_date);
	    $result->date ($converted) if defined $converted;

	    # Some parts of a MEDLINE date are stored just as properties
	    # because they have almost non-parseable format :-).
	    $result->medline_date ($$pub_date{'medlineDate'}) if defined $$pub_date{'medlineDate'};
	    $result->season ($$pub_date{'season'}) if defined $$pub_date{'season'};
	}
    }

    # ...some attributes are in journalInfo (which is outside of the article)
    my $journal_info = $$source{'journalInfo'};
    if (defined $journal_info) {
	$journal->country ($$journal_info{'country'}) if defined $$journal_info{'country'};
	$journal->medline_ta ($$journal_info{'medlineTA'}) if defined $$journal_info{'medlineTA'};
	$journal->medline_code ($$journal_info{'medlineCode'}) if defined $$journal_info{'medlineCode'};
	$journal->nlm_unique_id ($$journal_info{'nlmUniqueID'}) if defined $$journal_info{'nlmUniqueID'};
    }

    $result->journal ($journal);
    &_convert_article ($result, $source);
}

#
# takes book article related attributes from $article and convert
# them into $result and at the end call _convert_article (which is
# shared with journal article)
#

}

sub _convert_personal_name {

    my ($person) = @_;
    foreach my $key (keys %$person) {
	$$person{"_$key"} = $$person{$key};
	delete $$person{$key};
    }
    new Bio::Biblio::Person (%$person);
}

#
# takes journal article related attributes from $article and convert
# them into $result and at the end call _convert_article (which is
# shared with book article)
#

}

sub _convert_providers {

    my ($providers) = @_;
    return () unless defined $providers;

    my @results;
    foreach my $provider ( @{ $providers } ) {
	if (defined $$provider{'personalName'}) {
	    my $converted = &_convert_personal_name ($$provider{'personalName'});
	    push (@results, $converted) if defined $converted;
	} elsif (defined $$provider{'collectiveName'}) {
	    push (@results, new Bio::Biblio::Organisation (-name => $$provider{'collectiveName'}));
	} else {
            new Bio::Biblio::Provider;
	}
    }
    return () unless @results;
    return @results;
}

1;
__END__

}

sub _load_instance {

    my ($self, $source) = @_;

    #
    # MEDLINE has only JournalArticles and BookArticles
    # but we may create a general Ref if there is no attribute 'article'
    #
    my $result;
    my $article = $$source{'article'};
    if (defined $article) {
	if (defined $$article{'journal'}) {
	    $result = $self->_new_instance ('Bio::Biblio::MedlineJournalArticle');
	    $result->type ('JournalArticle');
	} elsif (defined $$article{'book'}) {
	    $result = $self->_new_instance ('Bio::Biblio::MedlineBookArticle');
	    $result->type ('BookArticle');
	} else {
	    $result->type ('MedlineArticle');
	}
    }
    $result = $self->_new_instance ('Bio::Biblio::Ref') unless defined $result;
    return $result;

}

sub _new_instance {

    my ($self, $module) = @_;
    my ($filename);
    ($filename = $module . '.pm') =~ s|\:\:|/|g;
    eval { require $filename; };
    $self->throw ("Loading error when trying '$filename'. $@\n") if $@;
    return $module->new;
}

#
# see OpenBQS specification (http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/openBQS) how
# a date should be coded;
# TBD: this can be improved - checking is missing, timezones,
#      converting to UTC...
# Also note that this routine does not convert 'medline_date' - it
# is stored in a separate attribute without ant conversion.
#

}

sub convert {

   my ($self, $source) = @_;
   my $result = $self->_load_instance ($source);

   if (defined $result->type) {
       if ($result->type eq 'JournalArticle') {
	   &_convert_journal_article ($result, $source);
       } elsif ($result->type eq 'BookArticle') {
	   &_convert_book_article ($result, $source);
       } elsif ($result->type eq 'Article') {
	   &_convert_article ($result, $source);
       }
   }

   #
   # now do the attributes which are the same for all resource types
   #

   # ...identification is now by MedlineID but the trend is to replace
   # it by PMID (I have heard) theefore we keep both also separately
   # from the 'identifier'
   if (defined $$source{'medlineID'}) {
       $result->identifier ($$source{'medlineID'});
   } else {
       $result->identifier ($$source{'PMID'});
   }
   $result->pmid ($$source{'PMID'}) if defined $$source{'PMID'};
   $result->medline_id ($$source{'medlineID'}) if defined $$source{'medlineID'};

   # ...few others
   $result->citation_owner ($$source{'owner'}) if defined $$source{'owner'};
   $result->status ($$source{'status'}) if defined $$source{'status'};
   $result->number_of_references ($$source{'numberOfReferences'}) if defined $$source{'numberOfReferences'};

   # ...entry status of the citation in the repository
   my $date;
   if (defined $$source{'dateRevised'}) {
       $result->last_modified_date (&_convert_date ($$source{'dateRevised'}));
       $date = &_convert_date ($$source{'dateCreated'});
       $result->date_created ($date) if defined $date;
       $date = &_convert_date ($$source{'dateCompleted'});
       $result->date_completed ($date) if defined $date;
   } elsif (defined $$source{'dateCompleted'}) {
       $result->last_modified_date (&_convert_date ($$source{'dateCompleted'}));
       $date = &_convert_date ($$source{'dateCreated'});
       $result->date_created ($date) if defined $date;
   } elsif (defined $$source{'dateCreated'}) {
       $result->last_modified_date (&_convert_date ($$source{'dateCreated'}));
   }

   # ...put citation subsets in a comma-separated string
   if (defined $$source{'citationSubsets'}) {
       $result->repository_subset (join (',', @{ $$source{'citationSubsets'} }));
   }

   # ...MEDLINE's Comments & Corrections will be arrays of hashes
   if (defined $$source{'commentsCorrections'}) {
       my $corr = $$source{'commentsCorrections'};
       $result->comment_ons ($$corr{'commentOns'}) if defined $$corr{'commentOns'};
       $result->comment_ins ($$corr{'commentIns'}) if defined $$corr{'commentIns'};
       $result->erratum_ins ($$corr{'erratumIns'}) if defined $$corr{'erratumIns'};
       $result->erratum_fors ($$corr{'erratumFors'}) if defined $$corr{'erratumFors'};
       $result->original_report_ins ($$corr{'originalReportIns'}) if defined $$corr{'originalReportIns'};
       $result->republished_froms ($$corr{'republishedFroms'}) if defined $$corr{'republishedFroms'};
       $result->republished_ins ($$corr{'republishedIns'}) if defined $$corr{'republishedIns'};
       $result->retraction_ofs ($$corr{'retractionOfs'}) if defined $$corr{'retractionOfs'};
       $result->retraction_ins ($$corr{'retractionIns'}) if defined $$corr{'retractionIns'};
       $result->summary_for_patients_ins ($$corr{'summaryForPatientsIns'}) if defined $$corr{'summaryForPatientsIns'};
       $result->update_ins ($$corr{'updateIns'}) if defined $$corr{'updateIns'};
       $result->update_ofs ($$corr{'updateOfs'}) if defined $$corr{'updateOfs'};
   }

   # ...MEDLINE's GeneSymbols are put in a comma-separated string
   if (defined $$source{'geneSymbols'}) {
       $result->gene_symbols (join (',', @{ $$source{'geneSymbols'} }));
   }

   # ...MEDLINE's GeneralNotes into an array of hashtables, each one
   # having keys for the 'owner' and the 'note'
   $result->general_notes ($$source{'generalNotes'}) if defined $$source{'generalNotes'};

   # ...MEDLINE's PersonalNameSubjects into contributors (TBD: is that correct?)
   if (defined $$source{'personalNameSubjects'}) {
       my @contributors;
       foreach my $person ( @{ $$source{'personalNameSubjects'} } ) {
	   push (@contributors, &_convert_personal_name ($person));
       }
       $result->contributors (\@contributors);
   }

   # ...MEDLINE's OtherAbstract into an array of hashtables, each one
   # having keys for the 'type', 'AbstractText' and the 'copyright'
   $result->other_abstracts ($$source{'otherAbstracts'}) if defined $$source{'otherAbstracts'};
#   if (defined $$source{'otherAbstracts'}) {
#	my @other_abstracts = ();
#	foreach my $oa ( @{ $$source{'otherAbstracts'} } ) {
#	    if (defined $$oa{'abstractText'}) {
#		my $abstract = $$oa{'abstractText'};
#		delete $$oa{'abstractText'};
#		$$oa{'abstract'} = $$abstract{'abstractText'};
#		$$oa{'rights'} = $$abstract{'copyrightInformation'} if defined $$abstract{'copyrightInformation'};
#		push (@other_abstracts, $oa);
#	    }
#	}
#	$result->other_abstracts (\@other_abstracts);
#    }

   # ...MEDLINE's OtherIDs into an array of hashtables, each one
   # having keys for the 'id', and 'source'
   $result->other_ids ($$source{'otherIDs'}) if defined $$source{'otherIDs'};

   # ...MEDLINE's Chemicals - store them as an array of hashtables
   # (each one for each Chemical)
   $result->chemicals ($$source{'chemicals'}) if defined $$source{'chemicals'};

   # MeshHeadings are put on two places:
   # - a complete information in a property called "MeshHeadings", and
   # - only descriptors in the hashtable "subject_headings", together
   #   with the word "MeSH" in "subject_headings_source"
   if (defined $$source{'meshHeadings'}) {
       $result->mesh_headings ($$source{'meshHeadings'});
       my %subject_headings;
       foreach my $mesh ( @{ $$source{'meshHeadings'} } ) {
	   $subject_headings{ $$mesh{'descriptorName'} } = 1 if defined $$mesh{'descriptorName'};
       }
       if (%subject_headings) {
	   $result->subject_headings (\%subject_headings);
	   $result->subject_headings_source ('Mesh');
       }
   }

   # ...MEDLINE's keyword lists are merger all together (this may not
   # be good idea - but again the keywords are better accessible
   # -TBD?)
   if (defined $$source{'keywordLists'}) {
       my %keywords;
       foreach my $keywords ( @{ $$source{'keywordLists'} } ) {
	   if ($$keywords{'keywords'}) {
	       foreach my $keyword ( @{ $$keywords{'keywords'} } ) {
		   $keywords{$keyword} = 1;
	       }
	   }
       }
       $result->keywords (\%keywords) if %keywords;
   }

   # Done!
   return $result;
}

# load a module (given as a real module name, e.g. 'Bio::Biblio::MedlineJournalArticle'),
# call new() method on it, and return the instance returned by the new() method

}

sub new {

    my ($caller, @args) = @_;
    my $class = ref ($caller) || $caller;

    # object creation and blessing    
    my ($self) = $class->SUPER::new (@args);	
    
    # make a hashtable from @args
    my %param = @args;
    @param { map { lc $_ } keys %param } = values %param; # lowercase keys

    # copy all @args into this object (overwriting what may already be
    # there) - changing '-key' into '_key', and making keys lowercase
    my $new_key;
    foreach my $key (keys %param) {
	($new_key = $key) =~ s/^-/_/;
	$self->{ lc $new_key } = $param { $key };
    }

    # done
    return $self;
}

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
#
#   Here is the core...
#
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------

}

General documentation

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Copyright (c) 2002 European Bioinformatics Institute. All Rights Reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.

This software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind.

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