Bio::Map OrderedPositionWithDistance
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Summary
Bio::Map::OrderedPositionWithDistance - Abstracts the notion of a member
of an ordered list of markers. Each marker is a certain distance
from the one in the ordered list before it.
Package variables
No package variables defined.
Included modules
Bio::Map::Position
Bio::Root::Root
Inherit
Bio::Map::Position
Synopsis
    use Bio::Map::OrderedPositionWithDistance;
# the first marker in the sequence
my $position = new Bio::Map::OrderedPositionWithDistance(-positions => 1,
-distance => 22.3 );
# the second marker in the sequence, 15.6 units from the fist one
my $position2 = new Bio::Map::OrderedPositionWithDistance(-positions => 2,
-distance => 15.6 );
# the third marker in the sequence, coincidental with the second
# marker
my $position3 = new Bio::Map::OrderedPositionWithDistance(-positions => 3,
-distance => 0 );
Description
This object is an implementation of the PositionI interface and the
Position object handles the specific values of a position.
OrderedPositionWithDistance is intended to be slightly more specific
then Position but only specific enough for a parser from the MarkerIO
subsystem to create and then pass to a client application to bless into
the proper type. For an example of how this is intended to work, see the
Mapmaker.pm.
No units are assumed here - units are handled by context of which Map
a position is placed in.
Se Bio::Map::Position for additional information.
Methods
distanceDescriptionCode
newDescriptionCode
Methods description
distance($new_distance)code    nextTop
 Title   : distance($new_distance)
Usage : $position->distance(new_distance) _or_
$position->distance()
Function: get/set the distance of this position from the previous marker
Returns : A scalar representing the current distance for this position.
Args : If $new_distance is provided the distance of this Position will
be set to $new_distance
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 Title   : new
Usage : my $obj = new Bio::Map::OrderedPositionWithDistance();
Function: Builds a new Bio::Map::OrderedPositionWithDistance object
Returns : Bio::Map::OrderedPositionWithDistance
Args : -positions - Should be a single value representing the order
of this marker within the list of markers
-distance - The distance this marker is from the marker before it.
0 reflects coincidentality.
Methods code
distancedescriptionprevnextTop
sub distance {
        my ($self,$distance) = @_;
        if ($distance) {
           $self->{'_distance'} = $distance;
        }
        return $self->{'_distance'};
}


1;
}
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sub new {
  my($class,@args) = @_;
  my $self = $class->SUPER::new(@args);
  $self->{'_positions'} = [];
  my ($positions,$distance) = $self->_rearrange([qw(POSITIONS DISTANCE)], @args);
  if( ref($positions) =~ /array/i ) { 
      foreach my $p ( @$positions ) {
	  $self->add_position($p);
      }
  } else { 
      $self->add_position($positions);
  }
	$distance && $self->distance($distance);
	
  return $self;
}
General documentation
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AUTHOR - Chad MatsallaTop
Email bioinformatics1@dieselwurks.com
CONTRIBUTORSTop
Lincoln Stein, lstein@cshl.org
Heikki Lehvaslaiho, heikki@ebi.ac.uk
APPENDIXTop
The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods.
Internal methods are usually preceded with a _