[Bioperl-l] Bio::Seq, search for specific features

[Frank Schwach]

Hi Jason,

Yes, I guess that would be the simplest way of doing it - basically just
doing it the way the docs suggest for getting at a specific feature but
hiding the grep behind a Bio::Seq method with search parameters. But we
could also build a hash of feature tags as the Bio::Seq is built so that
retrieval is more efficient. This could also be used to implement a bin
indexing scheme for range queries, similar to what Bio::DB::GFF does.
Is a move to an sqlite backend planend for the near future? 

Frank



On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 10:36 -0700, Jason Stajich wrote:
> And the implementation would just be something like this?
> 
> my @features = grep { $_->has_tag('id') && ($_->get_tag_values('id'))[0] 
> eq 'my_gene' } $seq->get_SeqFeatures();
> 
> I think any implementation would be if we moved from the in-memory 
> arrays & hash-based system to a sqlite db on the back-end for how 
> Sequence and Feature objects are stored.
> This would be a somewhat slower but wouldn't have performance/memory 
> problems we get for sequences with many annotations.
> 
> -jason
> Frank Schwach wrote, On 9/7/10 5:09 AM:
> > I am working a lot with feature-rich Bio::Seq objects these days and
> > thought that it would be really nice if I could do something like:
> >
> > my @features = $bio_seq_obj->get_SeqFeatures(-by_id =>  'my_gene');
> >
> > instead of having to grep for the feature every time.
> > There could then be 'by_tag' and 'by_region' options as well.
> >
> > According to the Bio::Seq docs, something like this seems to be planned
> > at some stage. I would be willing to contribute to this feature if I can
> > and if this isn't already being implemented by somebody else.
> > Does anybody know the state of this feature?
> >
> > Frank
> >
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