NAME

Bio::Map::LinkagePosition - Create a Position for a Marker that will be placed on a Bio::Map::LinkageMap

SYNOPSIS

    use Bio::Map::Position;
    my $position = new Bio::Map::LinkagePosition(-positions => 1,
						 -distance => 22.1 );

	    # can get listing of positions
    my @positions = $position->each_position;

DESCRIPTION

Position for a Bio::Map::MarkerI compliant object that will be placed on a Bio::Map::LinkageMap. See Bio::Map::MarkerI and Bio::Map::LinkageMap for details

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AUTHOR - Chad Matsalla

Email bioinformatics1@dieselwurks.com

CONTRIBUTORS

Lincoln Stein, lstein@cshl.org Heikki Lehvaslaiho, heikki@ebi.ac.uk Jason Stajich jason@bioperl.org

APPENDIX

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

new

 Title   : new
 Usage   : my $obj = new Bio::Map::LinkagePosition(-positions => $position,
				-distance => $distance );
 Function: Builds a new Bio::Map::LinkagePosition object
 Returns : Bio::Map::LinkagePosition
 Args    : -order => the relative order of this marker on a linkage map
 	   -positions => positions on a map

Bio::Map::PositionI methods

order

Title   : order
Usage   : $o_position->order($new_position) _or_
          $o_position->order()
Function: get/set the order position of this position in a map
Returns :
Args    : If $new_position is provided, the current position of this Position
          will be set to $new_position.