[Bioperl-l] Bio::SimpleAlign::slice()
Heikki Lehvaslaiho
heikki@ebi.ac.uk
Fri, 18 May 2001 17:32:24 +0100
I've written a fittingly simple slicing method for SimpleAlign.
Please have a look and let me know if I have missed someting obvious.
I've committed the code and some tests to bioperl-live.
-Heikki
=head2 slice
Title : slice
Usage : $aln2 = $aln->slice(20, 30)
Function :
Creates a slice from the alignment inclusive of start and
end columns. Sequences with no residues in the slice are
excluded from the new alignment and a warning is printed.
Slice beyond the length of the sequence does not do
padding.
Returns : a Bio::SimpleAlign object
Args : positive integer for start column
positive integer for end column
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