[Bioperl-l] Re: Sim4

[Ewan Birney]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 hilmar.lapp@pharma.Novartis.com wrote:

> 
> Dear all,
> 
> we need to parse Sim4 results, and there appears to be a Sim4 parser
> available in BioPerl. However, the documentation refers to objects that do
> not exist my BioPerl version (which I checked out yesterday night with
> using cvs update -d, so I was able to get the new Variation stuff), like
> Bio::Tools::Sim4 (can you call new() on a directory?),
> Bio::SeqFeature::Homol, and Bio::Tools::Sim4::ExonSet. After looking at the
> code in Bio/Tools/Sim4/Result.pm, only ExonSet seems to be really required
> from those, and it is not there. Consequently, the module fails loading. (I
> wonder whether there's a functional test script for this module.)
> 
> Can anyone tell me whether or not the Sim4 parser ought to be functional,
> and if so, how I can manage to get the modules I obviously miss. If the
> Sim4 module is not functional yet, can anyone tell me where it could make
> sense to take on, because I need one within the next days.

<sigh>. 

This is my fault hilmar. Let me see if I can figure out where this went ;)

Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Ok. I deleted it and removed in from teh repository. I
assume I did this for a good reason. I wonder why?



It is also using the outdated Bio::SeqFeature::Homol. I'll change that to
the newer Bio::SeqFeature::FeaturePair.

...


Everything now compiles at least.


I would not expect this to work cleanly - this was a very rushed job in
janurary whilst I was writing up. Apologies Hilmar - it is probably a
mess.

Of course, if you debug it/rewrite it that would be great. A test suite
would also be nice ;)


I have committed. Apologies again ...



Checking in Bio/Tools/Sim4/Exon.pm;
/home/repository/bioperl/bioperl-live/Bio/Tools/Sim4/Exon.pm,v  <--
Exon.pm
new revision: 1.5; previous revision: 1.4
done


> 
>      Hilmar
> 
> 

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