NAME
Bio::SFF::Header - An SFF header
VERSION
version 0.007
DESCRIPTION
This object represents the header of an SFF file. You probably don't want to deal with this in any way.
ATTRIBUTES
magic
The magic bytes at the start of any SFF file, this is always 779314790.
version
The version of SFF that is used. This must currently be 1.
index_offset
The offset of the index, or 0 if no index is present.
index_length
The length of the index, or 0 if no index is present.
number_of_reads
The number of reads in the SFF file.
header_length
The length of the header in bytes.
number_of_flows
The number of flows in the entries.
flowgram_format_code
Currently, this must always be 1.
flow_chars
The array of nucleotide bases ('A', 'C', 'G' or 'T') that correspond to the nucleotides used for each flow of each read.
key_sequences
The nucleotide bases of the key sequence used for the reads.
number_of_flows_per_read
The number of flowgram values in each entry.
AUTHOR
Leon Timmermans <leont@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Leon Timmermans, Utrecht University.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.