NAME

Bio::AGP::LowLevel - functions for dealing with AGP files

SYNOPSIS

$lines_arrayref = agp_parse('my_agp_file.agp');

agp_write( $lines => 'my_agp_file.agp');

DESCRIPTION

functions for working with AGP files.

FUNCTIONS

All functions below are EXPORT_OK.

str_in

Usage: print "it's valid" if str_in($thingy,qw/foo bar baz/);
Desc : return 1 if the first argument is string equal to at least one of the
       subsequent arguments
Ret  : 1 or 0
Args : string to search for, array of strings to search in
Side Effects: none

I kept writing this over and over in validation code and got sick of it.

is_filehandle

Usage: print "it's a filehandle" if is_filehandle($my_thing);
Desc : check whether the given thing is usable as a filehandle.
       I put this in a module cause a filehandle might be either
       a GLOB or isa IO::Handle or isa Apache::Upload
Ret  : true if it is a filehandle, false otherwise
Args : a single thing
Side Effects: none

agp_parse

Usage: my $lines = agp_parse('~/myagp.agp',validate_syntax => 1, validate_identifiers => 1);
Desc : parse an agp file
Args : filename or filehandle, hash-style list of options as 
                     validate_syntax => if true, error
                         if there are any syntax errors,
                     validate_identifiers => if true, error
                        if there are any identifiers that
                        CXGN::Tools::Identifiers doesn't recognize
                        IMPLIES validate_syntax
                     error_array => an arrayref.  if given, will push
                        error descriptions onto this array instead of
                        using warn to print them to stderr
Ret  : undef if error, otherwise return an
       arrayref containing line records, each of which is like:
       { comment => 'text' } if a comment,
       or if a data line:
       {  objname  => the name of the object being assembled
                     (same for every record),
          ostart   => start coordinate for this component (object),
          oend     => end coordinate for this component   (object),
          partnum  => the part number appearing in the 4th column,
          linenum  => the line number in the file,
          type     => letter type present in the file (/[ADFGNOPUW]/),
          typedesc => description of the type, one of:
                       - (A) active_finishing
                       - (D) draft
                       - (F) finished
                       - (G) wgs_finishing
                       - (N) known_gap
                       - (O) other
                       - (P) predraft
                       - (U) unknown_gap
                       - (W) wgs_contig
          ident    => identifier of the component, if any,
          length   => length of the component,
          is_gap   => 1 if the line is some kind of gap, 0 if it
                      is covered by a component,
          gap_type => one of:
               fragment: gap between two sequence contigs (also
                  called a "sequence gap"),
               clone: a gap between two clones that do not overlap.
		 contig: a gap between clone contigs (also called a
		    "layout gap").
		 centromere: a gap inserted for the centromere.
		 short_arm: a gap inserted at the start of an
		    acrocentric chromosome.
		 heterochromatin: a gap inserted for an especially
   		    large region of heterochromatic sequence (may also
		    include the centromere).
		 telomere: a gap inserted for the telomere.
		 repeat: an unresolvable repeat.
          cstart   => start coordinate relative to the component,
          cend     => end coordinate relative to the component,
          linkage  => 'yes' or 'no', only set for type of 'N',
          orient   => '+', '-', 0, or 'na'
                      orientation of the component
                      relative to the object,
       }

Side Effects: unless error_array is given, will print error
              descriptions to STDERR with warn()
Example:

agp_write

Usage: agp_write($lines,$file);
Desc : writes a properly formatted AGP file
Args : arrayref of line records to write, with the line records being
           in the same format as those returned by agp_parse above,
       filename or filehandle to write to,
Ret :  nothing meaningful

Side Effects: dies on failure.  if you gave it a filehandle, does
              not close it
Example:

agp_format_part( $record )

Format a single AGP part line (string terminated with a newline) from the given record hashref.

agp_contigs

Usage: my @contigs = agp_contigs( agp_parse($agp_filename) );
Desc : extract and number contigs from a parsed AGP file
Args : arrayref of AGP lines, like those returned by agp_parse() above
Ret  : list of contigs, in the same order as they occur in the
       file, formatted as:
          [ agp_line_hashref, agp_line_hashref, ... ],
          [ agp_line_hashref, agp_line_hashref, ... ],
          ...

AUTHOR(S)

Robert Buels

Sheena Scroggins