Bio::Map::Contig(3pm)

NAME

Bio::Map::Contig - A MapI implementation handling the contigs of a Physical Map (such as FPC)

SYNOPSIS

    # get the contig object of $contig from the Bio::Map::Physical
    my $ctgobj = $physical->get_contigobj($contig);
    # acquire all the markers that lie in this contig
    foreach my $marker ($ctgobj->each_markerid()) {
        print "   +++$marker\n";
    }
    # find the group of this contig
    print "Group: ",$ctgobj->group(),"\n";
    # find the range of this contig
    print "RANGE: start:",$ctgobj->range()->start(),"\tend: ",
           $ctgobj->range()->end(),"\n";
    # find the position of this contig in $group (chromosome)
    print "Position in Group $group"," = ",$ctgobj->position($group),"\n";

DESCRIPTION

This is an implementation of Bio::Map::MapI. It handles the essential storage of name, species, type, and units as well as in memory representation of the elements of a map.

Bio::Map::Contig has been tailored to work for FPC physical maps, but could probably be used for others as well (with the appropriate MapIO module).

FEEDBACK

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AUTHOR - Gaurav Gupta

Email [email protected]

CONTRIBUTORS

Sendu Bala [email protected]

PROJECT LEADERS

Jamie Hatfield [email protected] Dr. Cari Soderlund [email protected]

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The project was done in Arizona Genomics Computational Laboratory (AGCoL) at University of Arizona.

This work was funded by USDA-IFAFS grant #11180 titled "Web Resources for the Computation and Display of Physical Mapping Data".

For more information on this project, please refer:
http://www.genome.arizona.edu

APPENDIX

The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _

new

 Title   : new
 Usage   : my $clone = Bio::Map::Contig->new
                      (
                       -name    => $name,
                       -chr_remark   => $cremark,
                       -user_remark  => $uremark,
                       -trace_remark => $tremark,
                       -group   => $group,
                       -subgroup=> $subgroup,
                       -anchor  => $anchor,
                       -markers => \%markers,
                       -clones  => \%clones,
                       -position => $pos
                       -range    => Bio::Range->new(-start =>$s,-end=>$e),
                       );
 Function: Initialize a new Bio::Map::Contig object
           Most people will not use this directly but get Markers
           through L<Bio::MapIO::fpc>
 Returns : L<Bio::Map::Contig> object
 Args    : ( -name    => name string,
             -chr_remark   => chr remark string,
             -user_remark  => userremark string,
             -trace_remark => tremark string,
             -group   => group string,
             -subgroup=> subgroup string,
             -anchor  => boolean if this is anchored or not,
             -markers => hashref of contained markers,
             -clones  => hashref of contained clones,
             -position => position
             -range    => L<Bio::Range>

Modifier methods

All methods present in Bio::Map::SimpleMap are implemented by this class. Most of the methods are inherited from SimpleMap. The following methods have been modified to reflect the needs of physical maps.

chr_remark

 Title   : chr_remark
 Usage   : my $chrremark = $contigobj->chr_remark();
 Function: Get/set the group remark for this contig
 Returns : scalar representing the current group_remark of this contig
 Args    : none to get, OR string to set

user_remark

 Title   : user_remark
 Usage   : my $userremark = $contigobj->user_remark();
 Function: Get/set the user remark for this contig
 Returns : scalar representing the current user_remark of this contig
 Args    : none to get, OR string to set

trace_remark

 Title   : trace_remark
 Usage   : my $traceremark = $contigobj->trace_remark();
 Function: Get/set the trace remark for this contig
 Returns : scalar representing the current trace_remark of this contig
 Args    : none to get, OR string to set

range

 Title   : range
 Usage   : my $range = $contigobj->range();
 Function: Get/set the range for this Contig
 Returns : Bio::Range representing the current range of this contig,
           start and end of the contig can be thus found using:
           my $start = $contigobj->range()->start();
           my $end   = $contigobj->range()->end();
 Args    : none to get, OR Bio::Range to set

position

 Title   : position
 Usage   : $ctgpos = $contigobj->position();
 Function: Get/set the position of the contig in the group
 Returns : scalar representing the position of the contig in the group
 Args    : none to get, OR string to set

anchor

 Title   : anchor
 Usage   : $ctganchor = $contig->anchor();
 Function: Get/set the anchor value for this Contig (True | False)
 Returns : scalar representing the anchor (1 | 0) for this contig
 Args    : none to get, OR string to set

group

 Title   : group
 Usage   : $groupno = $contigobj->group();
 Function: Get/set the group number for this contig.
           This is a generic term, used for Linkage-Groups as well as for
           Chromosomes. 
 Returns : scalar representing the group number of this contig
 Args    : none

subgroup

 Title   : subgroup
 Usage   : $subgroup = $contig->subgroup();     
 Function: Get/set the subgroup for this contig. This is a generic term:
           subgroup here could represent subgroup of a Chromosome or of a
           Linkage Group. The user must take care of which subgroup he/she is
           querying for.        
 Returns : A scalar representing the subgroup of this contig
 Args    : none

each_cloneid

 Title   : each_cloneid
 Usage   : my @clones  = $map->each_cloneid();
 Function: retrieves all the clone ids in a map unordered
 Returns : list of strings (ids)
 Args    : none
 *** This only supplies the ids set with the set_clones method ***
 *** It has nothing to do with actual Bio::Map::MappableI objects ***

each_markerid

 Title   : each_markerid
 Usage   : my @markers = $map->each_markerid();
 Function: retrieves all the marker ids in a map unordered
 Returns : list of strings (ids)
 Args    : none
 *** This only supplies the ids set with the set_markers method ***
 *** It has nothing to do with actual Bio::Map::MarkerI objects ***

set_clones

 Title   : set_clones
 Usage   : $marker->set_clones(\%clones)
 Function: Set the clones hashref
 Returns : None
 Args    : Hashref of clone ids
 *** This only sets a hash of ids ***
 *** It has nothing to do with actual Bio::Map::MappableI objects ***

set_markers

 Title   : markers
 Usage   : $obj->set_markers($newval)
 Function: Set list of Markers (hashref)
 Returns : None
 Args    : Hashref of marker ids
 *** This only sets a hash of ids ***
 *** It has nothing to do with actual Bio::Map::MarkerI objects ***