NAME

Bio::Tools::BPlite::Iteration - object for parsing single iteration of a PSIBLAST report

SYNOPSIS

use Bio::Tools:: BPpsilite;

open FH, "t/psiblastreport.out";
$report = Bio::Tools::BPpsilite->new(-fh=>\*FH);

# determine number of iterations executed by psiblast
$total_iterations = $report->number_of_iterations;
$last_iteration = $report->round($total_iterations);

# Process only hits found in last iteration ...
$oldhitarray_ref = $last_iteration->oldhits;
HIT: while($sbjct = $last_iteration->nextSbjct) {
    $id = $sbjct->name;
    $is_old =  grep  /\Q$id\E/, @$oldhitarray_ref;
    if ($is_old ){next HIT;}
#  do something with new hit...
}

ALIGNMENTS

  # This assumed that you have $db pointing to a database, $out to an output file
  # $slxdir to a directory and $psiout    
  # note the alignments can only be obtained if the flag "-m 6" is run.
  # It might also be necessary to use the flag -v to get all alignments
  # 
    my @psiparams = ('database' => $db , 'output' => $out, 'j' => 3, 'm' => 6,
		     'h' => 1.e-3 , 'F' => 'T' , 'Q' => $psiout ); 
    my $factory = Bio::Tools::Run::StandAloneBlast->new(@psiparams);
    my $report = $factory->blastpgp($seq);
    my $total_iterations = $report->number_of_iterations();
    my $last_iteration = $report->round($total_iterations);
    my $align=$last_iteration->Align;
    my $slxfile=$slxdir.$id.".slx";
    my $slx = Bio::AlignIO->new('-format' => 'selex','-file' => ">".$slxfile );
    $slx->write_aln($align);

DESCRIPTION

See the documentation for BPpsilite.pm for a description of the Iteration.pm module.

AUTHORS - Peter Schattner

Email: schattner@alum.mit.edu

CONTRIBUTORS

Jason Stajich, jason@cgt.mc.duke.edu

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Based on work of: Ian Korf (ikorf@sapiens.wustl.edu, http://sapiens.wustl.edu/~ikorf), Lorenz Pollak (lorenz@ist.org, bioperl port)

COPYRIGHT

BPlite.pm is copyright (C) 1999 by Ian Korf.

DISCLAIMER

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

query

Title    : query
Usage    : $query = $obj->query();
Function : returns the query object
Example  :
Returns  : query object
Args     :

qlength

Title    : qlength
Usage    : $len = $obj->qlength();
Returns  : length of query
Args     : none

newhits

Title    :  newhits
Usage    : $newhits = $obj->newhits();
Returns  : reference to an array listing all the hits 
           from the current iteration which were not identified 
           in the previous iteration
Args     : none

oldhits

Title    :  oldhits
Usage    : $oldhits = $obj->oldhits();
Returns  : reference to an array listing all the hits from 
           the current iteration which were identified and 
           above threshold in the previous iteration
Args     : none

nextSbjct

Title    : nextSbjct
Usage    : $sbjct = $obj->nextSbjct();
Function : Method of iterating through all the Sbjct retrieved
           from parsing the report 
#Example  : while ( my $sbjct = $obj->nextSbjct ) {}
Returns  : next Sbjct object or undef if finished
Args     :

Align

Title    : Align
Usage    : $SimpleAlign = $obj->Align();
Function : Method to obtain a simpleAlign object from psiblast
Example  : $SimpleAlign = $obj->Align();
Returns  : SimpleAlign object or undef if not found.
BUG      : Only works if psiblast has been run with m 6 flag
Args     :

_readline

Title   : _readline
Usage   : $obj->_readline
Function: Reads a line of input.

          Note that this method implicitely uses the value of $/ that is
          in effect when called.

          Note also that the current implementation does not handle pushed
          back input correctly unless the pushed back input ends with the
          value of $/.
Example :
Returns : 

_pushback

Title   : _pushback
Usage   : $obj->_pushback($newvalue)
Function: puts a line previously read with _readline back into a buffer
Example :
Returns :
Args    : newvalue