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bioperl-0.6
/ Bio::Annotation::DBLink

NAME

Bio::Annotation::DBLink - Database Link

SYNOPSIS

    $annotation = $seq->annotation;
    foreach my $link ( $annotation->each_DBLink() ) {
	print "Linked to ",$link->primary_id()," in ",$link->database,"\n";
    }

DESCRIPTION

Provides an object which represents a link from one onbject to something in another database without proscribing what is in the other database. It gives back strings for the "primary_id", something like the accession number or the main id for the database and "database" being a string representation of the database.

CONTACT

Ewan Birney <birney@ebi.ac.uk>

APPENDIX

The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _

database

Title   : database
Usage   : $self->database($newval)
Function: 
Example : 
Returns : value of database
Args    : newvalue (optional)

primary_id

Title   : primary_id
Usage   : $self->primary_id($newval)
Function: 
Example : 
Returns : value of primary_id
Args    : newvalue (optional)

optional_id

Title   : optional_id
Usage   : $self->optional_id($newval)
Function: 
Example : 
Returns : value of optional_id
Args    : newvalue (optional)

comment

Title   : comment
Usage   : $self->comment($newval)
Function: 
Example : 
Returns : value of comment
Args    : newvalue (optional)