[Bioperl-l] results problem with StandAloneBlast

[Jason Stajich]

In the HOWTO hits() and hsps() were there, I just added rewind in the  
table of methods.
If someone wanted to write a little section in the HOWTO about  
resetting the iterator that would be great.

-jason
On Jun 3, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Chris Fields wrote:

> Nice!  Didn't know I could do that.  Maybe we should add some of this
> to the HOWTO (or is it already in there?).
>
> Chris
>
> On Jun 3, 2006, at 10:29 AM, Jason Stajich wrote:
>
>> you can get all the Hits or hsps with the following method:
>> my @hits = $result->hits;
>> my @hsps = $hit->hsps;
>>
>>
>> You can also reset the counter since these implementations are in-
>> memory and already parsed (and not a stream processor per se).
>> next_XX just iterates through the list stored in the parent object.
>>
>> $result->rewind;
>>
>>    and
>>
>> $hit->rewind;
>>
>>
>> For example, the rewind needs to be called if you want to use a
>> ResultWriter object and filter some of the values for the final
>> writing after first inspecting them.
>>
>> -jason
>>
>>
>> On May 30, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Genevieve DeClerck wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for your comment Sendu, it was very helpful. I think this
>>> must be
>>> what's going on.. I am using $blast_report->next_result in both
>>> subroutines. It appears that analyzing the blast results first w/ my
>>> sort subroutine empties (?) the $blast_result object so that when I
>>> try
>>> to print, there is nothing left to print. (and visa-versa when I
>>> print
>>> first then try to sort).
>>> So, from the looks of things, using next_result has the effect of
>>> popping the Bio::Search::Result::ResultI objects off of the SearchIO
>>> blast report object??
>>>
>>> It seems I could get around this by making a copy of the blast
>>> report by
>>> setting it to another new variable...(not the most elegant
>>> solution) but
>>> I'm having trouble with this...
>>>
>>> If I do:
>>>
>>> 	my $blast_report_copy = $blast_report;
>>>
>>> I'm just copying the reference to the SearchIO blast result, so it
>>> doesn't help me. How can I make another physical copy of this blast
>>> result object? Seems like a simple thing but how to do it is
>>> escaping me.
>>>
>>> But better yet, the way to go is to 'reset the counter,' or to  
>>> find a
>>> way to look at/print/sort the results without removing data from the
>>> blast result object. How is this done though??
>>>
>>> Sendu and Brian, I didn't post the sort_results subroutine because
>>> it is
>>> sprawling, as is a lot of my code. The code I provided was more
>>> like an
>>> aid for my explanation of the problem.. it doesn't actually run -
>>> sorry
>>> for the confusion, I should have more clear on that.  The important
>>> thing to know perhaps is that both sort_results and
>>> print_blast_results
>>> contain a foreach loop where I am using the 'next_results' method to
>>> view blast results. (And to clarify for Torsten, the blastall() is
>>> working just fine - the analysis/viewing of the results object is
>>> where
>>> I am encountering the problem.)
>>>
>>>
>>> Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated...
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Genevieve
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sendu Bala wrote:
>>>
>>>> Genevieve DeClerck wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>>> If I've sorted the results the sorted-results will print to  
>>>>> screen,
>>>>> however when I try to print the Hit Table results nothing is
>>>>> returned,
>>>>> as if the blast results have evaporated.... and visa versa, if i
>>>>> comment out the part where i point my sorting subroutine to the
>>>>> blast
>>>>> results reference,  my hit table results suddenly prints to  
>>>>> screen.
>>>>
>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>>> Here's an abbreviated version of my code:
>>>>
>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>>> #######
>>>>> ### the following 2 actions seem to be mutually exclusive.
>>>>> # 1) sort results into 1-hitter, 2-hitter, etc. groups of
>>>>> # SeqFeature objs stored in arrays. arrays are then printed
>>>>> # to stdout
>>>>> &sort_results($blast_report);
>>>>>
>>>>> # 2) print blast results
>>>>> &print_blast_results($blast_report);
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> sub print_blast_results{
>>>>>    my $report = shift;
>>>>>    while(my $result = $report->next_result()){
>>>>
>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> You didn't give us your sort_results subroutine, but is it as
>>>> simple as
>>>> they both use $report->next_result (and/or $result->next_hit), but
>>>> you
>>>> don't reset the internal counter back to the start, so the second
>>>> subroutine tries to get the next_result and finds the first
>>>> subroutine
>>>> has already looked at the last result and so next_result returns
>>>> false?
>>>>
>>>>  From a quick look it wasn't obvious how to reset the counter.
>>>> Hopefully
>>>> this can be done and someone else knows how.
>>>>
>>>
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>> Jason Stajich
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> Christopher Fields
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> Lab of Dr. Robert Switzer
> Dept of Biochemistry
> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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