[Bioperl-l] translate() oddities

[Chris Fields]

Yes the interface changed somewhat post 1.5.1, mainly to accept named  
parameters.  I think a few methods do this now as passing in lists of  
more than 2 args, undef'ing those one doesn't want set, gets confusing.

chris

On Apr 29, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Roy Chaudhuri wrote:

> Spent two minutes looking at this, so may as well chip in with what  
> I discovered even though you solved your problem.
>
> This "bug" comes about because in version 1.5.1 and earlier, the  
> arguments to translate were a simple list, with the first argument  
> the terminator (defaults to "*"). Your old version therefore assumed  
> that you wanted to translate the stop codon to "-frame". Amusingly  
> given your typo, if you miss the hyphen off the frame argument in  
> version 1.5.2 it reverts to the old interface and you end up with  
> the output "MMMMMframe". The moral of the story is of course to read  
> the docs relevant to the version you are using.
>
> Roy.
> --
> Dr. Roy Chaudhuri
> Department of Veterinary Medicine
> University of Cambridge, U.K.
>
> Derek Gatherer wrote:
>> Thanks Stefan
>> Actually, there was a typo in my message, I did use -frame => 1.   
>> However, the problem disappears on upgrading from 1.5.0 to 1.5.2.
>> So not a bug anymore.
>> Cheers
>> Derek
>> At 14:46 29/04/2008, Stefan Kirov wrote:
>>> my $frame1_obj = $seqobj->translate(-frame => 1);
>>> not
>>> my $frame1_obj = $seqobj->translate(frame => 1);
>>> Stefan
>>>
>>> Derek Gatherer wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I thought I'd better run this by the community before I embarrass
>>>> myself on Bugzilla.  It seems like a clear bug to me.  I'm running
>>>> Bioperl 1.5.0 on RedHat.
>>>>
>>>> For a test input:
>>>>
>>>>> test
>>>> ATGATGATGATGATGTGA
>>>>
>>>> the following code is fine.
>>>>
>>>> while((my $seqobj = $seq_in->next_seq()))
>>>> {
>>>>    print "\n".$seqobj->display_id;
>>>>    my $len  = $seqobj->length();
>>>>    print " length: $len";
>>>>    my $frame1_obj = $seqobj->translate();
>>>>    my $f1_prot = $frame1_obj->seq();
>>>>    print "\n$f1_prot";
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Output:
>>>>
>>>> test length: 18
>>>> MMMMM*
>>>>
>>>> But if I want to change the frame as specified in the BioPerl
>>>> tutorial, by using:
>>>>
>>>> my $frame1_obj = $seqobj->translate(frame => 1); # which should now
>>>> give frame 2, I get:
>>>>
>>>> test length: 18
>>>> MMMMM-frame
>>>>
>>>> The frame is unchanged and the text "-frame" is tacked on the end  
>>>> of
>>>> the output.  The same occurs with translate(frame => 2).
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?  Can something as fundamental as translate() really be
>>>> bugged?  or am I guilty of some particularly heinous syntax error?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Derek
>>>>
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Christopher Fields
Postdoctoral Researcher
Lab of Dr. Robert Switzer
Dept of Biochemistry
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign