<p dir="ltr">Sounds like the right way to do it! </p>
<br/><div class="cm_quote" style=" color: #787878">On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Torsten Seemann &lt;<a href="mailto:torsten.seemann@infotech.monash.edu.au">torsten.seemann@infotech.monash.edu.au</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br><div id="oldcontent" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><blockquote style=""><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">$rc  = Bio::Seq-&gt;new( -seq =&gt; $hsp-&gt;hit_string )-&gt;revcom-&gt;seq;<br>

</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Would this do the same thing?</div><div><br></div><div>$rc = $hsp-&gt;hit-&gt;revcom-&gt;seq </div><div><br></div><div>ie. I think the hit() method returns a Seq object, so no need to convert between strings?</div>

<div> </div></div>--Torsten Seemann<br>--Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Dept. Microbiology, Monash University, AUSTRALIA<br>
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