Bioperl: running local blasts

Joey Morris rjmorris@unity.ncsu.edu
Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:59:53 -0400


Well, see the thing is that I get this undefined subroutine error that
really shouldn't be affected by my implementations of the _validate_seqs or
_blast_files subroutines, should it? The call to _rearrange that is
generating the error occurs in the blast_local function in LocalBlast.pm,
code that I didn't touch.

Joey


Alan Williams wrote on Jun 22 at 09:29 am:
> 
> Aside:
>   Why does LocalBlast.pm throw an error in some situations and just
>   print an error message in others in the _validate_seq method?
> 
> Your _run_local looks fine.
> 
> In LocalBlast.pm:
> 
>   * increased $maximumLength
>   * changed _validate_options to only check for a known blast program
>     (ie no checking for whether the database exists or not and no
>      checking if the right program is used with the requested database)
>   * Changed _validate_seq to NOT check for a correct sequence type and
>     database program combination
>   * I don't set the environmental variable stuff in the perl modules --
>     we depend on the user having a proper environment to start with
>     ( ie BLASTDB points to a dir with blast databases and the
>       ~/.ncbirc file exists)
>   * I implemented the blast_seq only (see below)
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> -Alan
> 
> 
> #---------------
> sub _blast_seqs {
> #---------------
>  
> #% HACK!
>  
>     my $seq;
>     my $tmp_seq_file;
>     my $id;
>     my $baseFileName;
>     my $blast_cmd;  
>     my $sequence;
>  
>     $blast_cmd = "blastall ";
>  
>     # Linux Hack to check for more than one processor
>     my @procs;
>     if (-e "/proc/cpuinfo") { @procs=`grep processor /proc/cpuinfo` }
>     $blast_cmd .= "-a " . @procs ." ";  # For using both processors
>  
>     $blast_cmd .= "-p $program ";
>     $blast_cmd .= "-d $database ";
>     if($expect) {$blast_cmd .= "-e $expect ";}
>     if($gappedAlignmentFlag) {$blast_cmd .= "-g $gappedAlignmentFlag ";}
>     if($filter) {$blast_cmd .= "-F $filter ";}
>     if($matrix) {$blast_cmd .= "-M $matrix ";}
>     if($alignments) {$blast_cmd .= "-b $alignments ";}
>     if($descriptions) {$blast_cmd .= "-v $descriptions ";}
> 
>     foreach $seq (@seq_queue) {
> 
>       next unless &_validate_seq($seq);
> 
>       $tmp_seq_file = POSIX::tmpnam();
>       my $out = Bio::SeqIO->new(-file => ">$tmp_seq_file", -format=>
> 'Fasta');
>       $out->write_seq($seq);
>   $out->close();
> 
>       # get temp filename and final filename
>       $id = $seq->id;
>       $id =~ s/[|:\/\\<>]/_/g;  # remove special chars that could confuse
> shell
>       #$id =~ s/\.\w+?$//;  # trim off the extension if id is a filename.
>       $baseFileName = "$_out_dir$id.$database.$program";
> 
> 
>       system("echo '$blast_cmd -i $tmp_seq_file > $baseFileName'
> >/tmp/bioperl_blast_cmd");
> 
>       system("$blast_cmd -i $tmp_seq_file > $baseFileName");
>       unlink $tmp_seq_file;
> 
>       push @_outFiles, $baseFileName;
> 
>     }
> }
> 
> ---------------------------------
> Alan Williams
> Neomorphic, Inc.
> Alan@Neomorphic.com
> 510-981-8513
> ---------------------------------
> 
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Joey Morris wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:55:44 -0400
> > From: Joey Morris <rjmorris@unity.ncsu.edu>
> > To: Alan Williams <alan@neomorphic.com>
> > Cc: vsns-bcd-perl@lists.uni-bielefeld.de
> > Subject: Re: Bioperl: running local blasts
> > 
> > Well, I did both of those things (I think). For (1), I set the arrays
> > Blast_dbp_local, Blast_dbn_local, and Blast_matrix_local, I set some of the
> > default values (program, database, etc), and I wrote the functions
> > _get_environment and _blast_files. I left the function _blast_seqs as is
> > because I knew we wouldn't be using it for now. The function definitions for
> > _get_environment and _blast_files were the same as the ones I used in 0.05.1
> > (which worked). For (2), I changed _run_local to be
> > 
> > sub _run_local {
> >     my ($self, %param) = @_;
> >     
> >     require Bio::Tools::Blast::Run::LocalBlast; 
> >     Bio::Tools::Blast::Run::LocalBlast->import(qw(&blast_local));
> > 
> >     &blast_local($self, %param);
> > }
> > 
> > Let me know if I skipped something.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Joey
> > 
> > 
> > Alan Williams wrote on Jun 21 at 02:46 pm:
> > > 
> > > I am. However it required:
> > >   1) implementing the appropriate stub in the LocalBlast.pm module
> > >   2) fixing Blast.pm to call LocalBlast.pm
> > > This was with 0.5 and 0.6 (not sure about 0.6.1). You may also want to
> > > change the MIN/MAX sequence size constraints set in the LocalBlast.pm as
> > > well. 
> > > 
> > > If you need more detailed pointers let me know.
> > > 
> > > -Alan
> > > 
> > > ---------------------------------
> > > Alan Williams
> > > Neomorphic, Inc.
> > > Alan@Neomorphic.com
> > > 510-981-8513
> > > ---------------------------------
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Joey Morris wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:58:13 -0400
> > > > From: Joey Morris <rjmorris@unity.ncsu.edu>
> > > > To: vsns-bcd-perl@lists.uni-bielefeld.de
> > > > Subject: Bioperl: running local blasts
> > > > 
> > > > Can anyone tell me if they are successfully running local blast searches
> > > > using the LocalBlast.pm module? I just downloaded 0.6.1 and I get this error
> > > > when running a local blast:
> > > > 
> > > > *** 1 Blast reports produced fatal errors:
> > > > Undefined subroutine &Bio::Root::Object::_rearrange called at
> > > > /local/lib/perl/lib/Bio/Tools/Blast/Run/LocalBlast.pm line 309.
> > > > 
> > > > I experienced the same issue with 0.6.0 but not with the 0.05.1 release.
> > > > I've reported it as a bug but there's been no progess on it apparently.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Joey
> > > > 
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