[Bioperl-l] SearchIO: write/read database

[Chu, Roy]

I've never really explored using pipes beyond the shell envrionment and
writing images w/ the bioperl GD module but always a good time to learn!
If I can't get it to work, then I'll just parse the xml output.
 
Thanks,
-Roy

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From: dave at davemessina.com [mailto:dave at davemessina.com] On Behalf Of
Dave Messina
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:10 AM
To: Chu, Roy
Cc: Sendu Bala; bioperl-l at bioperl.org
Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] SearchIO: write/read database


Echoing what Sendu said, the most straightforward way to read output
from a program without writing to a file first is to open a pipe from
the program as a filehandle.

e.g.
my @args = ('/usr/bin/blastp', '/path/to/my/blastdb',
'/path/to/my/blastquery');
open (my $blast_fh, '-|', @args) or die "couldn't open blast stream";

Now you can use that filehandle to read in data and manipulate just as
if you had read it in from a file (except of course since it's a stream
you can't rewind).


Dave 


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