[Bioperl-l] Homologene again...

[Andrew Macgregor]

Jason and Ewan,

I'll take a look at this script and post what I come up with 
eventually in case it is useful for anyone.

Thanks, Andrew.

>No there aren't objects or parsers for this data in bioperl because
>homologene it is just a cluster of LocusLink Ids and accessions.  I
>tried to write a basic parser for my own needs last month and sort of gave
>up on the data - been happier with the InParanoid Orthologs for what I
>needed in the end.
>
>Happy to give you what I started writing (note - I was interested in
>drosophila orthologs to human so this is specific for that).
>
>Hope this helps at all - I realize it is not at all sophisticated - and
>there are a couple of cases that it fails to parse because for some reason
>the file doesn't follow the format all the way through - go figure...
>
>-jason