[Bioperl-l] RE: :SeqIO HOWTO

chen li chen_li3 at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 3 20:50:43 EST 2005


Dear Dr. Moore,

Thank you very much. It helps me a lot.

Li

--- Barry Moore <bmoore at genetics.utah.edu> wrote:

> Li-
> 
> The HOWTOs are generally example based, and thus are
> not comprehensive
> documentation.  The primary documentation for the
> details of any module
> is found in POD within that module.  You can access
> that by running
> perldoc on the actual perl module (perldoc
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Bio/Seq.pm on my
> system) or browse
> through the module documentation online (for bioperl
> 1.4 currently) at
> http://doc.bioperl.org/releases/bioperl-1.4/.
> 
> For instance, point you browser to
>
http://doc.bioperl.org/releases/bioperl-1.4/Bio/Seq.html
> click on
> "Methods", choose Description under display_name,
> and you'll get:
> 
>  Title   : display_name
>  Usage   : $string    = $obj->display_name()
>  Function: A string which is what should be
> displayed to the user
>            the string should have no spaces
> (ideally, though a cautious
>            user of this interface would not assumme
> this) and should be
>            less than thirty characters (though
> again, double checking
>            this is a good idea)
> 
>            This is aliased to display_id().
>  Returns : A scalar
> 
> Barry
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: chen li [mailto:chen_li3 at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 6:55 AM
> > To: Barry Moore
> > Subject: Bio::SeqIO HOWTO
> > 
> > Dear Dr. Moore,
> > 
> > One more question: which parts of the HOWTOs 
> describe
> > the methods for
> > alphabet/description/display_name/length/seq?
> > 
> > > print $seq->alphabet,"\n";
> > > print $seq->description,"\n";
> > > print $seq->display_name,"\n";
> > > print $seq->length,"\n";
> > > print $seq->seq,"\n";
> > 
> > 
> > Li
> > 
> > 
> > 
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