[Bioperl-l] Regarding blast in Bioperl

[Smithies, Russell]

That's a fair mix of incomplete code you've supplied!!
Did you read the documentation for RemoteBlast? The example there will do 99% of what you want.
http://search.cpan.org/~cjfields/BioPerl-1.6.1/Bio/Tools/Run/RemoteBlast.pm

I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to do (as you've left out a bit of your code) but I assume you're trying to retrieve and print the sequence for each hit.

Here's something that works, not sure exactly what/why you want to print but it should get you a bit further.

--Russell


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#!perl -w

use Bio::Tools::Run::RemoteBlast;
use Bio::DB::GenBank;

use CGI ':standard';

use strict;

my $q = new CGI;

my @params = (
               -prog         => 'blastn',
               -data         => 'nr',
               -expect       => '1e-30',
               -entrez_query => 'Homo sapiens [ORGN]',
               -readmethod   => 'SearchIO'
);

my $gb = Bio::DB::GenBank->new;

my $factory = Bio::Tools::Run::RemoteBlast->new(@params);

#$v is just to turn on and off the messages
my $v = 1;

my $str = Bio::SeqIO->new( -file => 'test.faa', -format => "fasta" );

while ( my $input = $str->next_seq() ) {

  my $r = $factory->submit_blast($input);

  print STDERR "waiting..." if ( $v > 0 );
  while ( my @rids = $factory->each_rid ) {
    foreach my $rid (@rids) {
      my @seqs = ();
      my $rc   = $factory->retrieve_blast($rid);
      if ( !ref($rc) ) {
        if ( $rc < 0 ) {
          $factory->remove_rid($rid);
        }
        print STDERR "." if ( $v > 0 );
        sleep 5;
      }
      else {
        my $result = $rc->next_result();

        #save the blast output
        my $filename = $result->query_accession . '.out';
        $factory->save_output($filename);
        $factory->remove_rid($rid);
        print "\nQuery Name: ", $result->query_name(), "\n";
        while ( my $hit = $result->next_hit ) {

          # store the hit sequences
          push @seqs, $gb->get_Seq_by_version( $hit->name );

          next unless ( $v > 0 );
          print "\thit name is ", $hit->name, "\n";
          while ( my $hsp = $hit->next_hsp ) {
            print "\t\tscore is ", $hsp->score, "\n";
          }
        }

        ## print the seqs you've retrieved??
        open( OUTFILE, '>', $result->query_accession . '.htm' );
        print OUTFILE $q->start_html('RNAi Result'),
          $q->h1('RNAi Result'),
          $q->h2('Input'),
          $q->pre( toString($input) ),
          $q->h2('Output');

        foreach (@seqs) {

          #there's probably a better way of printing the seq
          print OUTFILE $q->pre( toString($_) );
        }
        print OUTFILE $q->end_html;
        close OUTFILE;
      }
    }
  }
}

sub toString {
  my $s = shift;
  return '>' . $s->display_id . " " . $s->desc . "\n" . $s->seq;
}


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