[Bioperl-l] StandAloneBlast : 2 newbie questions

Ewan Birney birney@ebi.ac.uk
Mon, 18 Jun 2001 22:08:45 +0100 (BST)


On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Jason Stajich wrote:

> > 
> > Interesting question that I don't have a good answer to.  Can you help on
> > this, Jason?
> > 
> Simpliest way is to use the private method _io_cleanup even though this is
> probably bad programming practice since you are calling a private method.
> 
> So after each round of blastall (or whatever you are calling) call
> $factory->_io_cleanup();
> 
> and you *SHOULD* have your tempfiles cleaned up.  
> 
> BioPerl: Should this behavior be required at the end of each _run call in 
>          StandAloneBlast instead?  Or maybe it is a flag one can toggle to
>          cleanup after each run?


flag - good idea
default value of flag - to unlink after each run.


> 
> > - Peter
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> Jason Stajich
> jason@chg.mc.duke.edu
> Center for Human Genetics
> Duke University Medical Center 
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