[Bioperl-l] Problem: Can't call method "features" on an undefined value at BIO::DB::GFF.pl

Chris Fields cjfields at uiuc.edu
Tue Jan 22 04:21:27 UTC 2008


I'm cc'ing this to the gbrowse list just in case Lincoln or Scott have  
an idea.  My guess is it's a bug in the fast loader.  Could you file  
this in bugzilla?

http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/

chris

On Jan 21, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Hang wrote:

>
> Hi, Chris:
>
> Following your suggestion, I added -create flag and the GFF3loader  
> started
> to work. Thanks alot!
> When I load dmel-all-5.4.gff into mysql with -fast, I had the  
> following
> error:
>   Data too long for column 'attribute_value' at c:/../../../mysql.pm  
> line
> 510
> If I don't use -fast, it is OK, except for the annoying slow speed.  
> Do you
> have any suggestion on this?
>
> Best,
> Hang
>
>
>
>
> Chris Fields wrote:
>>
>> It's bp_seqfeature_load.pl (if you have the full bioperl core
>> distribution, it's in script/Bio-SeqFeature/Store).  I had some
>> problems with the fast-loading option but it was likely just my gff
>> formatting; example data loaded just fine.
>>
>> As for the error, you need to use the '-create' flag when  
>> initializing
>> a database (or wiping data from a current one):
>>
>> =============================================================
>> use Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store;
>> use Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store::GFF3Loader;
>> my $db = Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store->new(-adaptor => 'DBI::mysql',
>>                                         -dsn     => 'dbi:mysql:test',
>>                                         -user    => 'root',
>>                                         -pass    => 'XXXXX',
>>                                         -write   =>  1
>>                                         -create  => 1);
>> my $loader = Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store::GFF3Loader->new(-store    =>
>> $db,
>>                                                         -verbose  =>
>> 1);
>> $loader->load(./'dmel-all-r5.4.gff');
>> =============================================================
>>
>> chris
>>
>> On Jan 20, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Scott Cain wrote:
>>
>>> Jon,
>>>
>>> There is a script for loading a SeqFeature database just like the  
>>> GFF
>>> database, though I don't know what it's called off hand (I'm not  
>>> at my
>>> normal computer right now).  Be sure to read the documentation and  
>>> you
>>> will probably want to use the 'fast' option (I don't remember what
>>> it is
>>> called either).
>>>
>>> Scott
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Scott Cain, Ph. D.				 	 cain at cshl.edu
>>> GMOD Coordinator, http://www.gmod.org/			 (216)392-3087
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Hang wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi, Scott,
>>>> I tried to change sequence-region line to "4   FlyBase
>>>> chromosome_arm  1
>>>> 1351857 .  .  .  ID=4;Name=4", it doesn't work. "$!" didn't say
>>>> anything but
>>>> "died at line 12".
>>>>
>>>> So, I went ahead with the Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store. Here is my
>>>> code to
>>>> load the dmel-all-r5.4.gff(from Flybase) to a test database:
>>>> =============================================================
>>>> use Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store;
>>>> use Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store::GFF3Loader;
>>>> my $db = Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store->new(-adaptor => 'DBI::mysql',
>>>>                                        -dsn     =>  
>>>> 'dbi:mysql:test',
>>>>                                        -user    => 'root',
>>>>                                        -pass    => 'XXXXX',
>>>>                                        -write   =>  1 );
>>>> my $loader = Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store::GFF3Loader->new(-store
>>>> => $db,
>>>>                                                        -verbose
>>>> => 1);
>>>> $loader->load(./'dmel-all-r5.4.gff');
>>>> =============================================================
>>>> I got bunch of errors like this:
>>>> "DBD::mysql::execute failed: Table 'test.locationlist' doesn't
>>>> exist at
>>>> C:\Biology\perl\site\lib\Bio\DB\SeqFeature\Store\DBI\mysql.pm line
>>>> 1316".
>>>> The line 1316 in mysql.pm looks like this: $sth->execute($name) or
>>>> die
>>>> $sth->errstr;
>>>> I checked the database test after failed loading. There is only one
>>>> table
>>>> created, which call 'meta'. I also tried 'grant all on test to
>>>> XXX at localhost' and used that -user and -pass to load gff, it didn't
>>>> work
>>>> either.
>>>>
>>>> Jon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Scott Cain-3 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Jon,
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, seeing the error message would be helpful, but my first  
>>>>> guess
>>>>> without is that there are a few things you can try:
>>>>>
>>>>> * removing the "sequence-region" line from the GFF file, adding a
>>>>> line
>>>>> like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> 4   FlyBase  chromosome_arm  1  1351857 .  .  .  ID=4;Name=4
>>>>>
>>>>> and then reloading the database.
>>>>>
>>>>> * Or, you may want to consider using Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store,
>>>>> since
>>>>> Bio::DB::GFF3 doesn't always behave correctly with complex GFF3
>>>>> (that
>>>>> is, with three levels of features (like gene, mRNA and CDS)).
>>>>>
>>>>> Scott
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 19:49 -0800, Hang wrote:
>>>>>> Hi, Scott,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After adding die $!, I know something is wrong at line:
>>>>>> "my $segment = $db->segment(-name => '4', -start => 20000, -end  
>>>>>> =>
>>>>>> 25000);"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> my gff file is like this:
>>>>>> ##gff-version 3
>>>>>> ##sequence-region 4 1 1351857
>>>>>> 4	FlyBase	transposable_element	2	611	.	+	.
>>>>>> ID=FBti0062890;Name=ninja-Dsim-
>>>>>> like
>>>>>> {}4829
>>>>>> ;Dbxref=FlyBase_Annotation_IDs:TE62890;derived_cyto_location=-;
>>>>>> 4	repeatmasker_dummy	match	2	347	.	+	.
>>>>>> ID=:1395923_repeatmasker_dummy;Name=1%2C347-AE003845.4-dummy-
>>>>>> RepeatMasker;
>>>>>> 4	repeatmasker_dummy	match_part	2	347	2367	+	.
>>>>>> ID=:5142029_dummy;Name=:5142029;Parent=:
>>>>>> 1395923_repeatmasker_dummy;target_type=so;Target=D83207
>>>>>> 5860 6210 +;
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> I really got confused. Any further suggestion? Thank you!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jon
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Scott Cain-3 wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Jon,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think it's funny that you have "or die" on the database
>>>>>>> opening line,
>>>>>>> "or die" on the @features line, but you didn't put one on the
>>>>>>> $segment
>>>>>>> line.  Try adding "or die: $!" to the $segment line to see  
>>>>>>> what it
>>>>>> says,
>>>>>>> also add a 'print $segment' after you create it and before you
>>>>>>> try to
>>>>>>> get the features from it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Clearly, the problem is that $segment is not defined (that is,
>>>>>>> nothing
>>>>>>> is in it, not that the wrong thing is in it).  The next trick is
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>> find
>>>>>>> out why.  My first guess, without looking at the data set, is
>>>>>>> that the
>>>>>>> arm is not really named '4'.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Scott
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 10:25 -0800, Hang wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi, everyone,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I met this problem when I was running this script to extract
>>>>>>>> features
>>>>>>>> overlaps with 4:20,000..25,000. It always responds like "Can't
>>>>>>>> call
>>>>>>>> method
>>>>>>>> "features" on an undefined value at BIO::DB::GFF.pl line XX".
>>>>>>>> ==============================================================
>>>>>>>> use Bio::DB::GFF;
>>>>>>>> use Bio::Tools::GFF;
>>>>>>>> my $db = Bio::DB::GFF->new(-adaptor => 'dbi::mysql',
>>>>>>>>                                       -dsn =>
>>>>>>>> 'dbi:mysql:dmel_gff:localhost',
>>>>>>>>                                       -user => 'XXXX',
>>>>>>>>                                       -pass => 'XXXX') || die
>>>>>> "database
>>>>>>>> open failed";
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> my $segment = $db->segment(-name => '4', -start => 20000, - 
>>>>>>>> end =>
>>>>>> 25000);
>>>>>>>> my @features = $segment->features(-types => ['gene', 'exon',
>>>>>>>> 'intron',
>>>>>>>> 'five_prime_UTR', 'three_prime_UTR', 'CDS']) or die "no
>>>>>>>> features";
>>>>>>>> print(scalar(@features)."\n");
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> = 
>>>>>>>> ===============================================================
>>>>>>>> I am using activeperl 5.8.8 and bioperl 1.5.2 under Win32. I
>>>>>>>> loaded
>>>>>>>> dmel_5.4.gff into mysql database by bulk_load_gff.pl without  
>>>>>>>> any
>>>>>> error.
>>>>>>>> Other methods failed also.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Any help will be deeply appreciated!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>> Jon
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> Scott Cain, Ph. D.
>>>>>> cain at cshl.edu
>>>>>>> GMOD Coordinator (http://www.gmod.org/)
>>>>>> 216-392-3087
>>>>>>> Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> Scott Cain, Ph. D.
>>>>> cain at cshl.edu
>>>>> GMOD Coordinator (http://www.gmod.org/)
>>>>> 216-392-3087
>>>>> Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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>> Lab of Dr. Robert Switzer
>> Dept of Biochemistry
>> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Lab of Dr. Robert Switzer
Dept of Biochemistry
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign






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