NAME

Bio::Tools::BPlite::Sbjct - A Blast Subject (database search Hit)

SYNOPSIS

 use Bio::Tools::BPlite
 my $report = new Bio::Tools::BPlite(-fh=>\*STDIN);
 while(my $sbjct = $report->nextSbjct) {
     $sbjct->name;    # access to the hit name
     "$sbjct";        # overloaded to return name
     $sbjct->nextHSP; # gets the next HSP from the sbjct
     while(my $hsp = $sbjct->nextHSP) {
	 # canonical form is again a while loop
     }

DESCRIPTION

See Bio::Tools::BPlite for a more detailed information about the BPlite BLAST parsing objects.

The original BPlite.pm module has been written by Ian Korf! See http://sapiens.wustl.edu/~ikorf

The Sbjct object encapsulates a Hit in a Blast database search. The Subjects are the "Hits" for a particular query. A Subject may be made up of multiple High Scoring Pairs (HSP) which are accessed through the nextHSP method.

If you are searching for the P-value or percent identity that is specific to each HSP and you will need to use the nextHSP method to get access to that data.

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AUTHOR - Peter Schattner

Email: schattner@alum.mit.edu

CONTRIBUTORS

Jason Stajich, jason@bioperl.org

APPENDIX

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

name

Title    : name
Usage    : $name = $obj->name();
Function : returns the name of the Sbjct 
Example  : 
Returns  : name of the Sbjct 
Args     :

report_type

Title    : report_type
Usage    : $type = $sbjct->report_type()
Function : Returns the type of report from which this hit was obtained.
           This usually pertains only to BLAST and friends reports, for which
           the report type denotes what type of sequence was aligned against
           what (BLASTN: dna-dna, BLASTP prt-prt, BLASTX translated dna-prt, 
           TBLASTN prt-translated dna, TBLASTX translated dna-translated dna).
Example  : 
Returns  : A string (BLASTN, BLASTP, BLASTX, TBLASTN, TBLASTX, UNKNOWN)
Args     : a string on set (you should know what you are doing)

nextFeaturePair

Title    : nextFeaturePair
Usage    : $name = $obj->nextFeaturePair();
Function : same as the nextHSP function 
Example  : 
Returns  : next FeaturePair 
Args     :

nextHSP

Title    : nextHSP
Usage    : $hsp = $obj->nextHSP();
Function : returns the next available High Scoring Pair
Example  : 
Returns  : Bio::Tools::HSP  or null if finished
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