Bioperl: Creating a SeqIO object

[Ewan Birney]

On Fri, 26 May 2000, gert thijs wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I hope this is not a stupid question, but I still haven't captured all the
> gory details of perl yet.
> I am developping a web interface where one can enter some DNA sequences that
> will be processed. Those DNA sequences should be in Fasta format. When I read
> the inputs of the web interface the sequences are stored as one long string in
> a variable $dnaseq. Now I am first writing this string to a file and then I
> use the filehandle to read the sequences into a new SeqIO object. 
> But I was wondering if I can do this without writing $dnaseq to a file. 

Sure - go

	$seqobj = Bio::Seq->new( -id =>'temp_id',
				 -seq => $dnaseq);

does this answer solve the problem?

> 
> tnx,
> Gert Thijs
> 
> -- 
> ==========================================================
> + Gert Thijs              gert.thijs@esat.kuleuven.ac.be +
> +                                                        +
> + Dept. Elektrotechniek ESAT-SISTA                       +
> + Kardinaal Mercierlaan, 94                              +
> + B-3001 HEVERLEE  Belgium                               +
> + Tel :  +32-16-32 18 84 ---- Fax : +32-16-32 19 70      +
> ==========================================================
> =========== Bioperl Project Mailing List Message Footer =======
> Project URL: http://bio.perl.org/
> For info about how to (un)subscribe, where messages are archived, etc:
> http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Perl/Bio/vsns-bcd-perl.html
> ====================================================================
> 

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Ewan Birney. Mobile: +44 (0)7970 151230, Work: +44 1223 494420
<birney@ebi.ac.uk>. 
-----------------------------------------------------------------

=========== Bioperl Project Mailing List Message Footer =======
Project URL: http://bio.perl.org/
For info about how to (un)subscribe, where messages are archived, etc:
http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Perl/Bio/vsns-bcd-perl.html
====================================================================