NAME

Bio::DB::Flat::BDB - Interface for BioHackathon standard BDB-indexed flat file

SYNOPSIS

#You should not be using this module directly.

See Bio::DB::Flat.

DESCRIPTION

This object provides the basic mechanism to associate positions in files with primary and secondary name spaces. Unlike Bio::Index::Abstract (see Bio::Index::Abstract), this is specialized to work with the BerkeleyDB-indexed "common" flat file format worked out at the 2002 BioHackathon.

This object is the guts to the mechanism, which will be used by the specific objects inheriting from it.

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AUTHOR - Lincoln Stein

Email - lstein@cshl.org

SEE ALSO

Bio::DB::Flat,

APPENDIX

The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with an "_" (underscore).

get_PrimarySeq_stream

Title   : get_PrimarySeq_stream
Usage   : $stream = get_PrimarySeq_stream
Function: Makes a Bio::DB::SeqStreamI compliant object
          which provides a single method, next_primary_seq
Returns : Bio::DB::SeqStreamI
Args    : none

get_all_primary_ids

Title   : get_all_primary_ids
Usage   : @ids = $seqdb->get_all_primary_ids()
Function: gives an array of all the primary_ids of the
          sequence objects in the database.
Example :
Returns : an array of strings
Args    : none

To Be Implemented in Subclasses

The following methods MUST be implemented by subclasses.

May Be Overridden in Subclasses

The following methods MAY be overridden by subclasses.