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Summary

Bio::Index::EMBL - Interface for indexing (multiple) EMBL/Swissprot
.dat files (ie flat file embl/swissprot format).

Package variables

Included modules

Inherit

Bio::Index::AbstractSeq

Synopsis

    # Complete code for making an index for several
    # EMBL files
    use Bio::Index::EMBL;
    use strict;

    my $Index_File_Name = shift;
    my $inx = Bio::Index::EMBL->new('-filename' => $Index_File_Name,
				    '-write_flag' => 'WRITE');
    $inx->make_index(@ARGV);

    # Print out several sequences present in the index
    # in Fasta format
    use Bio::Index::EMBL;
    use strict;

    my $Index_File_Name = shift;
    my $inx = Bio::Index::EMBL->new('-filename' => $Index_File_Name);
    my $out = Bio::SeqIO->new('-format' => 'Fasta','-fh' => \*STDOUT);

    foreach my $id (@ARGV) {
        my $seq = $inx->fetch($id); # Returns Bio::Seq object
	$out->write_seq($seq);
    }

    # alternatively

    my $seq1 = $inx->get_Seq_by_id($id);
    my $seq2 = $inx->get_Seq_by_acc($acc);

Description

Inherits functions for managing dbm files from Bio::Index::Abstract.pm,
and provides the basic funtionallity for indexing EMBL files, and
retrieving the sequence from them. Heavily snaffled from James Gilbert's
Fasta system. Note: for best results 'use strict'.

Methods

Methods description

 Title   : _file_format
 Usage   : Internal function for indexing system
 Function: Provides file format for this database
 Example :
 Returns : 
 Args    :

  Title   : _index_file
  Usage   : $index->_index_file( $file_name, $i )
  Function: Specialist function to index EMBL format files.
            Is provided with a filename and an integer
            by make_index in its SUPER class.
  Example : 
  Returns : 
  Args    :

Methods code

sub _file_format {

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

   return 'EMBL';
}



1;

}

sub _index_file {

    my( $self,
        $file, # File name
        $i     # Index-number of file being indexed
        ) = @_;

    my( $begin, # Offset from start of file of the start
                # of the last found record.
        $id,    # ID of last found record.
	@accs,   # accession of last record. Also put into the index
        );

    $begin = 0;

    open EMBL, $file or $self->throw("Can't open file for read : $file");

    # Main indexing loop
    $id = undef;
    @accs = ();
    while (<EMBL>) {
	if( /^\/\// ) {
	    if( ! defined $id ) {
		$self->throw("Got to a end of entry line for an EMBL flat file with no parsed ID. Considering this a problem!");
		next;
	    }
	    if( ! @accs ) {
		$self->warn("For id [$id] in embl flat file, got no accession number. Storing id index anyway");
	    }

	    $self->add_record($id, $i, $begin);

	    foreach my $acc (@accs) {
		if( $acc ne $id ) {
		    $self->add_record($acc, $i, $begin);
		}
	    }
	} elsif (/^ID\s+(\S+)/) {
	    $id = $1;
	    # not sure if I like this. Assummes tell is in bytes.
	    # we could tell before each line and save it.
            $begin = tell(EMBL) - length( $_ );
	
	} elsif (/^AC\s+(.*)?/) {
            push @accs , split (/[; ]+/, $1);
	} else {
	    # do nothing
	}
    }

    close EMBL;
    return 1;

}

sub _type_stamp {

    return '__EMBL_FLAT__'; # What kind of index are we?
}

#
# Suggested fix by Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> to
# get around a clash with CPAN shell...
#

BEGIN {
    $VERSION = 0.1;

}

sub _version {

    return $VERSION;

}

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