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bioperl-1.4
/ Bio::Tools::Analysis::Protein::NetPhos

NAME

Bio::Tools::Analysis::Protein::NetPhos - a wrapper around NetPhos server

SYNOPSIS

 use Bio::Tools::Analysis::Protein::NetPhos;

 my $seq; # a Bio::PrimarySeqI object
 my $threshold  = "0.90";

 my $netphos = Bio::Tools::Analysis::Protein::NetPhos->new
    ( -seq => $seq,
      -threshold => $threshold );

 # run NetPhos prediction on a sequence
 my $netphos->run();

 # alternatively you can say
 $netphos->seq($seq)->threshold($threshold)->run;

 die "Could not get a result" unless $netphos->status =~ /^COMPLETED/;

 print $netphos->result;     # print raw prediction to STDOUT

 foreach my $feat ( $netphos->result('Bio::SeqFeatureI') ) {

     # do something to SeqFeature
     # e.g. print as GFF
     print $feat->gff_string, "\n";
     # or store within the sequence - if it is a Bio::RichSeqI
     $seq->add_SeqFeature($feat)

}

DESCRIPTION

This class is wrapper around the NetPhos 2.0 server which produces neural network predictions for serine, threonine and tyrosine phosphorylation sites in eukaryotic proteins.

See http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/NetPhos/.

This the first implentation of Bio::SimpleAnalysisI which hopefully will make it easier to write wrappers on various services. This class uses a web resource and therefore inherits from Bio::WebAgent.

SEE ALSO

Bio::SimpleAnalysisI, Bio::WebAgent

FEEDBACK

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AUTHORS

Richard Adams, Richard.Adams@ed.ac.uk, Heikki Lehvaslaiho, heikki@ebi.ac.uk

APPENDIX

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

result

Name    : result
Usage   : $job->result (...)
Returns : a result created by running an analysis
Args    : none (but an implementation may choose
          to add arguments for instructions how to process
          the raw result)

The method returns a scalar representing a result of an executed job. If the job was terminated by an error the result may contain an error message instead of the real data (or both, depending on the implementation).

This implementation returns differently processed data depending on argument:

undef

Returns the raw ASCII data stream but without HTML tags

'Bio::SeqFeatureI'

The argument string defined the type of bioperl objects returned in an array. The objects are Bio::SeqFeature::Generic.

anything else

Array of array references of [ position, score, residue].

threshold

Usage   : $job->threshold(...)
Returns  : The significance threshold of a prediction
Args     : None (retrieves value) or a value beween 0 and 1.
Purpose  : Get/setter of the threshold to be sumitted for analysis.