[Bioperl-l] Odd problem with get_tag_values

[Fields, Christopher J]

Using has_tag('gene') as a pre-screen works for me for both example seqs.

chris

On Feb 24, 2012, at 3:33 PM, Adlai Burman wrote:

> Thanks so much, Jason.
> I will give that a try in after I get a few hours of much needed sleep :-)
> 
> 
> On Feb 24, 2012, at 10:21 PM, Jason Stajich wrote:
> 
>> not all CDS will be annotated with a 'gene' tag, this is due to variation in how annotation is done and that there is not a requirement that there be a gene tag for all CDS features.
>> 
>> You can protect your query - we often do this when dealing with data from the wild by testing for has_tag first.
>> 
>> my %strands;
>> for my $cds ( grep {$_->primary_tag eq 'CDS' } Bio::SeqIO->new(-file => $file)->next_seq->get_SeqFeatures ) {
>> if( $cds->has_tag('gene') ) {
>> 	my ($gene) = $cds->get_tag_values('gene'); # get the 1st one, this returns a list
>> 	$strands{$gene} = $cds->strand; 
>> } else { # look in alternative places for a name, e.g. locus, 
>> ...
>> }
>> }
>> 
>> An alternative is to loop through your list of tags in order of preference
>> 
>> my %strands;
>> for my $cds ( grep {$_->primary_tag eq 'CDS' } Bio::SeqIO->new(-file => $file)->next_seq->get_SeqFeatures ) {
>> for my $tag ( qw(gene locus name product accession note) ) {  
>>  if( $cds->has_tag($tag) ) {
>> 	my ($name) = $cds->get_tag_values($tag); # get the 1st one, this returns a list
>> 	$strands{$name} = $cds->strand;
>>       $seen = 1;
>>       last;
>> }
>> if( ! $seen ) { 
>> 	warn("not tag found for feature at ", $cds->location->to_FTstring, "\n");
>> }
>> }
>> 
>> On Feb 24, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Adlai Burman wrote:
>> 
>>> I have come across a perplexing problem with trying to parse sequence features into hashes from gb records. This is the minimal code which shows my problem:
>>> 
>>> #!/usr/bin/perl                                                                                                     
>>> use strict;
>>> use warnings;
>>> use IO::String;
>>> use Bio::Perl;
>>> use Bio::SeqIO;
>>> use IO::String;
>>> 
>>> my @files = </Users/adlai/Dropbox/atrsh/*>;
>>> foreach my $file(@files){
>>> 
>>> 
>>> my @cds_features = grep {$_->primary_tag eq 'CDS' } Bio::SeqIO->new(-file => $file)->next_seq->get_SeqFeatures;
>>> my %strands = map {$_->get_tag_values('gene'), $_->strand} @cds_features; ##This Is The Culprit. 
>>> .
>>> .
>>> .
>>> #do nifty stuff
>>> }
>>> 
>>> For some files this approach works just fine.
>>> For others the script dies immediately with the error message:
>>> 
>>> ------------- EXCEPTION -------------
>>> MSG: asking for tag value that does not exist gene
>>> STACK Bio::SeqFeature::Generic::get_tag_values /Users/adlai/Downloads/BioPerl-1.6.1/Bio/SeqFeature/Generic.pm:517
>>> STACK toplevel tosend.pl:16
>>> -------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> The difference in the files that parse and those that don't seems to be that the files that crash have "intron" and "exon" tags. They ALL have "gene" tags.
>>> Does anyone know why this is a problem and what can be done to circumvent it?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Adlai
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> Jason Stajich
>> jason.stajich at gmail.com
>> jason at bioperl.org
>> 
>> 
> 
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