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NAME

Bio::SearchIO::Writer::HitTableWriter - Tab-delimited data for Bio::Search::Hit::HitI objects

SYNOPSIS

Example 1: Using the default columns

use Bio::SearchIO;
use Bio::SearchIO::Writer::HitTableWriter;

my $in = Bio::SearchIO->new();

my $writer = Bio::SearchIO::Writer::HitTableWriter->new();

my $out = Bio::SearchIO->new( -writer => $writer );

while ( my $result = $in->next_result() ) {
    $out->write_result($result, ($in->report_count - 1 ? 0 : 1) );
}

Example 2: Specifying a subset of columns

    use Bio::SearchIO;
    use Bio::SearchIO::Writer::HitTableWriter;

    my $in = Bio::SearchIO->new();

    my $writer = Bio::SearchIO::Writer::HitTableWriter->new( 
                                  -columns => [qw(
                                                  query_name
                                                  query_length
                                                  hit_name
                                                  hit_length
                                                  frac_identical_query
                                                  expect
                                                  )]  );

    my $out = Bio::SearchIO->new( -writer => $writer,
				  -file   => ">searchio.out" );

    while ( my $result = $in->next_result() ) {
        $out->write_result($result, ($in->report_count - 1 ? 0 : 1) );
    }

Custom Labels

You can also specify different column labels if you don't want to use the defaults. Do this by specifying a -labels hash reference parameter when creating the HitTableWriter object. The keys of the hash should be the column number (left-most column = 1) for the label(s) you want to specify. Here's an example:

  my $writer = Bio::SearchIO::Writer::HitTableWriter->new( 
                             -columns => [qw( query_name 
                                              query_length
                                              hit_name
                                              hit_length  )],
                             -labels  => { 1 => 'QUERY_GI',
	                                     3 => 'HIT_IDENTIFIER' } );

DESCRIPTION

Bio::SearchIO::Writer::HitTableWriter outputs summary data for each Hit within a search result. Output is in tab-delimited format, one row per Hit.

The reason why this is considered summary data is that if a hit contains multiple HSPs, the HSPs will be tiled and the data represents a summary across all HSPs. See below for which columns are affected. See the docs in Bio::Search::Hit::BlastHit for more details on HSP tiling.

Available Columns

Here are the columns that can be specified in the -columns parameter when creating a HitTableWriter object. If a -columns parameter is not specified, this list, in this order, will be used as the default.

query_name             # Sequence identifier of the query.
query_length           # Full length of the query sequence
hit_name               # Sequence identifier of the hit
hit_length             # Full length of the hit sequence
round                  # Round number for hit (PSI-BLAST)
expect                 # Expect value for the alignment
score                  # Score for the alignment (e.g., BLAST score)
bits                   # Bit score for the alignment
num_hsps               # Number of HSPs (not the "N" value)
frac_identical_query*  # fraction of identical substitutions in query
frac_identical_hit*    # fraction of identical substitutions in hit
frac_conserved_query*  # fraction of conserved substitutions in query
frac_conserved_hit*    # fraction of conserved substitutions in hit
frac_aligned_query*    # fraction of the query sequence that is aligned
frac_aligned_hit*      # fraction of the hit sequence that is aligned
length_aln_query*      # Length of the aligned portion of the query sequence
length_aln_hit*        # Length of the aligned portion of the hit sequence
gaps_query*            # Number of gaps in the aligned query sequence
gaps_hit*              # Number of gaps in the aligned hit sequence
gaps_total*            # Number of gaps in the aligned query and hit sequences
start_query*           # Starting coordinate of the aligned portion of the query sequence
end_query*             # Ending coordinate of the aligned portion of the query sequence
start_hit*             # Starting coordinate of the aligned portion of the hit sequence
end_hit*               # Ending coordinate of the aligned portion of the hit sequence
strand_query           # Strand of the aligned query sequence
strand_hit             # Strand of the aligned hit sequence
frame                  # Frame of the alignment (0,1,2)
ambiguous_aln          # Ambiguous alignment indicator ('qs', 'q', 's')
hit_description        # Full description of the hit sequence
query_description      # Full description of the query sequence

Items marked with a * report data summed across all HSPs after tiling them to avoid counting data from overlapping regions multiple times.

For more details about these columns, see the documentation for the corresponding method in Bio::Search::Result::BlastHit.

TODO

Figure out the best way to incorporate algorithm-specific score columns. The best route is probably to have algorithm-specific subclasses (e.g., BlastHitTableWriter, FastaHitTableWriter).

FEEDBACK

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Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to the Bioperl bug tracking system to help us keep track the bugs and their resolution. Bug reports can be submitted via email or the web:

bioperl-bugs@bio.perl.org                   
http://bugzilla.bioperl.org/

AUTHOR

Steve Chervitz <sac@bioperl.org>

See the FEEDBACK section for where to send bug reports and comments.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2001, 2002 Steve Chervitz. All Rights Reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

DISCLAIMER

This software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind.

SEE ALSO

Bio::SearchIO::Writer::HitTableWriter, Bio::SearchIO::Writer::ResultTableWriter

METHODS

to_string()

Note: this method is not intended for direct use. The SearchIO::write_result() method calls it automatically if the writer is hooked up to a SearchIO object as illustrated in the SYNOPSIS section .

Title     : to_string()
          :
Usage     : print $writer->to_string( $result_obj, [$include_labels] );
          :
Argument  : $result_obj = A Bio::Search::Result::BlastResult object
          : $include_labels = boolean, if true column labels are included (default: false)
          :
Returns   : String containing tab-delimited set of data for each hit 
          : in a BlastResult object. Some data is summed across multiple HSPs.
          :
Throws    : n/a

end_report

Title   : end_report
Usage   : $self->end_report()
Function: The method to call when ending a report, this is
          mostly for cleanup for formats which require you to 
          have something at the end of the document.  Nothing for
          a text message.
Returns : string
Args    : none

filter

Title   : filter
Usage   : $writer->filter('hsp', \&hsp_filter);
Function: Filter out either at HSP,Hit,or Result level
Returns : none
Args    : string => data type,
          CODE reference