[Bioperl-l] avoiding temporary files

[Stephen Baird]

Hi,
  I think this is a basic perl question but I can't figure it out and
since it is with my bioperl calls I'm sure one of you will know the
answer.  I would like to take a sequence file that is in a single variable
like from a textarea of a webpage and make it into a sequence object
without writing it to a temporary file.  It would be nice for me to do
this with any program that I call through perl....like blastall where the
query sequence does not have to be written as temporary file.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

Stephen Baird
Molecular Genetics
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
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