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1 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2 # PACKAGE : Bio::SeqIO::tab
3 # AUTHOR : Philip Lijnzaad <p.lijnzaad@med.uu.nl>
4 # CREATED : Feb 6 2003
6 # Copyright (c) This module is free software; you can redistribute it
7 # and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
9 # _History_
11 # Ewan Birney <birney@ebi.ac.uk> developed the SeqIO
12 # schema and the first prototype modules.
14 # This code is based on his Bio::SeqIO::raw
16 # You may distribute this module under the same terms as perl itself
18 # POD documentation - main docs before the code
20 =head1 NAME
22 Bio::SeqIO::tab - nearly raw sequence file input/output
23 stream. Reads/writes id"\t"sequence"\n"
25 =head1 SYNOPSIS
27 Do not use this module directly. Use it via the L<Bio::SeqIO> class.
29 =head1 DESCRIPTION
31 This object can transform Bio::Seq objects to and from tabbed flat
32 file databases.
34 It is very useful when doing large scale stuff using the Unix command
35 line utilities (grep, sort, awk, sed, split, you name it). Imagine
36 that you have a format converter 'seqconvert' along the following
37 lines:
39 my $in = Bio::SeqIO->newFh(-fh => \*STDIN , '-format' => $from);
40 my $out = Bio::SeqIO->newFh(-fh=> \*STDOUT, '-format' => $to);
41 print $out $_ while <$in>;
43 then you can very easily filter sequence files for duplicates as:
45 $ seqconvert < foo.fa -from fasta -to tab | sort -u |\
46 seqconvert -from tab -to fasta > foo-unique.fa
48 Or grep [-v] for certain sequences with:
50 $ seqconvert < foo.fa -from fasta -to tab | grep -v '^S[a-z]*control' |\
51 seqconvert -from tab -to fasta > foo-without-controls.fa
53 Or chop up a huge file with sequences into smaller chunks with:
55 $ seqconvert < all.fa -from fasta -to tab | split -l 10 - chunk-
56 $ for i in chunk-*; do seqconvert -from tab -to fasta < $i > $i.fa; done
57 # (this creates files chunk-aa.fa, chunk-ab.fa, ..., each containing 10
58 # sequences)
61 =head1 FEEDBACK
63 =head2 Mailing Lists
65 User feedback is an integral part of the evolution of this and other
66 Bioperl modules. Send your comments and suggestions preferably to one
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72 =head2 Support
74 Please direct usage questions or support issues to the mailing list:
76 I<bioperl-l@bioperl.org>
78 rather than to the module maintainer directly. Many experienced and
79 reponsive experts will be able look at the problem and quickly
80 address it. Please include a thorough description of the problem
81 with code and data examples if at all possible.
83 =head2 Reporting Bugs
85 Report bugs to the Bioperl bug tracking system to help us keep track
86 the bugs and their resolution.
87 Bug reports can be submitted via the web:
89 https://redmine.open-bio.org/projects/bioperl/
91 =head1 AUTHORS
93 Philip Lijnzaad, p.lijnzaad@med.uu.nl
95 =head1 APPENDIX
97 The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods.
98 Internal methods are usually preceded with a _
100 =cut
103 # Let the code begin...
105 package Bio::SeqIO::tab;
106 use strict;
108 use Bio::Seq;
110 use base qw(Bio::SeqIO);
112 =head2 next_seq
114 Title : next_seq
115 Usage : $seq = $stream->next_seq()
116 Function: returns the next sequence in the stream
117 Returns : Bio::Seq object
118 Args :
121 =cut
123 sub next_seq{
124 my ($self,@args) = @_;
125 ## When its 1 sequence per line with no formatting at all,
126 ## grabbing it should be easy :)
128 my $nextline = $self->_readline();
129 chomp($nextline) if defined $nextline;
130 return unless defined $nextline;
131 if ($nextline =~ /^([^\t]*)\t(.*)/) {
132 my ($id, $seq)=($1, uc($2));
133 $seq =~ s/\s+//g;
134 return Bio::Seq->new(-display_id=> $id, -seq => $seq);
135 } else {
136 $self->throw("Can't parse tabbed sequence entry:'$nextline' around line $.");
140 =head2 write_seq
142 Title : write_seq
143 Usage : $stream->write_seq($seq)
144 Function: writes the $seq object into the stream
145 Returns : 1 for success and 0 for error
146 Args : Bio::Seq object
149 =cut
151 sub write_seq {
152 my ($self,@seq) = @_;
153 foreach (@seq) {
154 if ($_->display_id() =~ /\t/) {
155 $self->throw("display_id [".$_->display_id()."] contains TAB -- illegal in tab format");
157 $self->_print($_->display_id(), "\t",$_->seq, "\n") or return;
160 $self->flush if $self->_flush_on_write && defined $self->_fh;
161 return 1;