NAME

Bio::DB::Das::Chado - DAS-style access to a chado database

SYNOPSIS

  # Open up a feature database
                 $db    = Bio::DB::Das::Chado->new(
                            -dsn  => 'dbi:Pg:dbname=gadfly;host=lajolla'
                            -user => 'jimbo',
                            -pass => 'supersecret',
                                       );

  @segments = $db->segment(-name  => '2L',
                           -start => 1,
			   -end   => 1000000);

  # segments are Bio::Das::SegmentI - compliant objects

  # fetch a list of features
  @features = $db->features(-type=>['type1','type2','type3']);

  # invoke a callback over features
  $db->features(-type=>['type1','type2','type3'],
                -callback => sub { ... }
		);

  # get all feature types
  @types   = $db->types;

  # count types
  %types   = $db->types(-enumerate=>1);

  @feature = $db->get_feature_by_name($class=>$name);
  @feature = $db->get_feature_by_target($target_name);
  @feature = $db->get_feature_by_attribute($att1=>$value1,$att2=>$value2);
  $feature = $db->get_feature_by_id($id);

  $error = $db->error;

DESCRIPTION

Bio::DB::Das::Chado allows DAS style access to a Chado database, getting SeqFeatureI-compliant BioPerl objects and allowing GBrowse to access a Chado database directly.

FEEDBACK

Mailing Lists

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gmod-gbrowse@lists.sourceforge.com

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to the GMOD bug tracking system at SourceForge to help us keep track the bugs and their resolution.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=27707&atid=391291

AUTHOR

Scott Cain <scain@cpan.org>

LICENSE

This software may be redistributed under the same license as perl.

APPENDIX

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

new

 Title   : new
 Usage   : $db    = Bio::DB::Das::Chado(
                            -dsn  => 'dbi:Pg:dbname=gadfly;host=lajolla'
			    -user => 'jimbo',
			    -pass => 'supersecret',
                                       );

 Function: Open up a Bio::DB::DasI interface to a Chado database
 Returns : a new Bio::DB::Das::Chado object
 Args    :

-dsn [dsn string]: A full dbi dsn string for the database, optionally including host and port information, like "dbi:Pg:dbname=chado;host=localhost;port=5432".
-user [username]: The database user name.
-pass [password]: The users password for the database.
-organism [common_name|abbreviation|"Genus species"]: Used to specify the organism that the features should be drawn from in Chado instances that have more than one organism. The argument can be the common name, the abbreviation or "Genus species". Since common name and abbreviation are not guaranteed to be unique, if one of those is supplied and it corresponds to more than one organism_id, the Chado adaptor will die. Since the combination is guaranteed to be unique by table constraints, supplying "Genus species" should always work.
-srcfeatureslice [1|0] default: 1: Setting this to 1 will enable searching for features using a function and a corresponding index that can significantly speed searches, as long as the featureloc_slice function is present in the Chado instance (all "modern" instances of Chado do have this function). Since it available in nearly all Chado instances, in a future release of this adaptor, the default value of -srcfeatureslice will be set to 1 (on).
-inferCDS [1|0] default: 0: Given mRNA features that have exons and polypeptide features as children, when inferCDS is set, the Chado adaptor will calculate the intersection of the exons and polypeptide features and create CDS features that result. This is generally needed when using gene and mRNA features with glyphs in GBrowse that show subparts, like the gene and processed_transcript glyphs. Since this is almost always required, in a future release of this adaptor, the default will be switched to 1 (on).
-fulltext [1|0] default: 0: This item allows full text searching of various Chado text fields, including feature.name, feature.uniquename, synonym.synonym_sgml, dbxref.accession, and all_feature_names.name (which fequently includes featureprop.value, depending on how all_feature_names is configured). Note that to use -fulltext, you must run the preparation script, gmod_chado_fts_prep.pl, on the database, and in addition, it might be a good idea to set up a cronjob to keep the all_feature_names materialized view up to date with the materialized view tool, gmod_materialized_view_tool.pl.
-recursivMapping [1|0] default: 0: In the case where features are mapped to a "small" srcfeature (like a contig) and then that small feature is mapped to a larger feature (like a chromosome), setting -recursivMapping will allow the Chado adaptor to calculate the coordinates of the feature on the larger feature even though it isn't explicitly mapped to it. The Chado adaptor suffers an approximately 20% performance penalty to do this mapping.
-allow_obsolete [1|0] default: 0: If set to 1, allow_obsolete will tell the Chado adaptor to ignore the feature.is_obsolete column when querying to find features.
-enable_seqscan [1|0] default: 1: If set to zero, the -enable_seqscan will send a query planner hint to the PostgreSQL server to make it more costly to do sequential scans on a table. This is generally not necessary, as the query planner in Pg 8+ is smarter than it used to be.
-do2Level [1|0] default: 0: do2Level is a flag for specifying that two "levels" at most of features should be fetch when getting child features. This flag is generally unnecessary as Bio::Graphics::Glyph supports specifying on a per glyph basis what should be fetch. Use of this flag is incompatible with the -recursivMapping flag.
-reference_class [SO type name]: Used to specify what the "base type" is. Typically, this would be chromosome or contig, but setting it is only necessary in the case where features are mapped to more than one srcfeature and you don't want to use the one that is lowest on the graph. For example, you have polypeptides that are mapped to chromosomes and motifs that are mapped to polypeptides. If you want to display the motifs on the polypeptide, you need to set "polypeptide" as the argument for -reference_class.
-tripal [1|0] default: 0: If turned on, the tripal flag tells the adaptor that it is dealing with a Chado instance that is working with Tripal, and so the query to fetch features may fail with regard to analysis features. This flag attempts to prevent that. It may mean that analysis features (like similarity results) will be inaccessible to the adaptor, or at least scores associated with them will be, depending on how they were loaded.

feature_summary

Usage

$obj->feature_summary()

Function

This function is based on Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store->feature_summary. The text that follows comes from it's documtation:

This method is used to get coverage density information across a region of interest. You provide it with a region of interest, optional a list of feature types, and a count of the number of bins over which you want to calculate the coverage density. An object is returned corresponding to the requested region. It contains a tag called "coverage" that will return an array ref of "bins" length. Each element of the array describes the number of features that overlap the bin at this postion.

Note that this method uses an approximate algorithm that is only accurate to 500 bp, so when dealing with bins that are smaller than 1000 bp, you may see some shifting of counts between adjacent bins.

Although an -iterator option is provided, the method only ever returns a single feature, so this is fairly useless.

Returns

A single feature containing summary data, or an interator containing that one feature.

Arguments

-seq_id        Sequence ID for the region
-start         Start of region
-end           End of region
-type/-types   Feature type of interest or array ref of types
-bins          Number of bins across region. Defaults to 1000.
-iterator      Return an iterator across the region

coverage_array

Usage

$obj->coverage_array()

Function

Calculates the coverage/density of a particular feature type over a range.

Returns

A reference to the coverage array, or if called in an array context, a two element array with the reference to the coverage array first and the type that it was called with as the second element.

Arguments

seqid start stop type bins

This is based on the method of the same name in Bio::DB::SeqFeature::Store::DBI::mysql

tripal

Usage

$obj->tripal()        #get existing value
$obj->tripal($newval) #set new value

Function

Flag to identfy Chado database that are working with Tripal

Returns

value of tripal (a scalar)

Arguments

new value of tripal (to set)

fulltext

Usage

$obj->fulltext()        #get existing value
$obj->fulltext($newval) #set new value

Function

Flag to govern the use of full text searching queries

Returns

value of fulltext (a scalar)

Arguments

new value of fulltext (to set)

refclass

Usage

$obj->refclass()        #get existing value
$obj->refclass($newval) #set new value

Function

Returns

value of the reference class's cvterm_id (a scalar)

Arguments

new value of the reference class's cvterm_id (to set)

use_all_feature_names

Title   : use_all_feature_names
Usage   : $obj->use_all_feature_names()
Function: set or return flag indicating that all_feature_names view is present
Returns : 1 if all_feature_names present, 0 if not
Args    : to return the flag, none; to set, 1

organism_id

Title   : organism_id
Usage   : $obj->organism_id()
Function: set or return the organism_id
Returns : the value of the id
Args    : to return the flag, none; to set, the common name of the organism

If -organism is set when the Chado feature is instantiated, this method queries the database with the common name to cache the organism_id.

inferCDS

Title   : inferCDS
Usage   : $obj->inferCDS()
Function: set or return the inferCDS flag
Returns : the value of the inferCDS flag
Args    : to return the flag, none; to set, 1

Often, chado databases will be populated without CDS features, since they can be inferred from a union of exons and polypeptide features. Setting this flag tells the adaptor to do the inferrence to get those derived CDS features (at some small performance penatly).

allow_obsolete

Title   : allow_obsolete
Usage   : $obj->allow_obsolete()
Function: set or return the allow_obsolete flag
Returns : the value of the allow_obsolete flag
Args    : to return the flag, none; to set, 1

The chado feature table has a flag column called 'is_obsolete'. Normally, these features should be ignored by GBrowse, but the -allow_obsolete method is provided to allow displaying obsolete features.

sofa_id

Title   : sofa_id 
Usage   : $obj->sofa_id()
Function: get or return the ID to use for SO terms
Returns : the cv.cv_id for the SO ontology to use
Args    : to return the id, none; to determine the id, 1

recursivMapping

Title   : recursivMapping
Usage   : $obj->recursivMapping($newval)
Function: Flag for activating the recursive mapping (desactivated by default)
Returns : value of recursivMapping (a scalar)
Args    : on set, new value (a scalar or undef, optional)

Goal : When we have a clone mapped on a chromosome, the recursive mapping maps the features of the clone on the chromosome.

srcfeatureslice

Title   : srcfeatureslice
Usage   : $obj->srcfeatureslice
Function: Flag for activating 
Returns : value of srcfeatureslice
Args    : on set, new value (a scalar or undef, optional)
Desc    : Allows to use a featureslice of type featureloc_slice(srcfeat_id, int, int)
Important : this and recursivMapping are mutually exclusives

do2Level

Title   : do2Level
Usage   : $obj->do2Level
Function: Flag for activating the fetching of 2levels in segment->features
Returns : value of do2Level
Args    : on set, new value (a scalar or undef, optional)

dbh

Title   : dbh
Usage   : $obj->dbh($newval)
Function:
Returns : value of dbh (a scalar)
Args    : on set, new value (a scalar or undef, optional)

term2name

Title   : term2name
Usage   : $obj->term2name($newval)
Function: When called with a hashref, sets cvterm.cvterm_id to cvterm.name 
          mapping hashref; when called with an int, returns the name
          corresponding to that cvterm_id; called with no arguments, returns
          the hashref.
Returns : see above
Args    : on set, a hashref; to retrieve a name, an int; to retrieve the
          hashref, none.

Note: should be replaced by Bio::GMOD::Util->term2name

name2term

Title   : name2term
Usage   : $obj->name2term($newval)
Function: When called with a hashref, sets cvterm.name to cvterm.cvterm_id
          mapping hashref; when called with a string, returns the cvterm_id
          corresponding to that name; called with no arguments, returns
          the hashref.
Returns : see above
Args    : on set, a hashref; to retrieve a cvterm_id, a string; to retrieve
          the hashref, none.

Note: Should be replaced by Bio::GMOD::Util->name2term

segment

Title   : segment
Usage   : $db->segment(@args);
Function: create a segment object
Returns : segment object(s)
Args    : see below

This method generates a Bio::Das::SegmentI object (see Bio::Das::SegmentI). The segment can be used to find overlapping features and the raw sequence.

When making the segment() call, you specify the ID of a sequence landmark (e.g. an accession number, a clone or contig), and a positional range relative to the landmark. If no range is specified, then the entire region spanned by the landmark is used to generate the segment.

Arguments are -option=>value pairs as follows:

-name         ID of the landmark sequence.

-class        A namespace qualifier.  It is not necessary for the
              database to honor namespace qualifiers, but if it
              does, this is where the qualifier is indicated.

-version      Version number of the landmark.  It is not necessary for
              the database to honor versions, but if it does, this is
              where the version is indicated.

-start        Start of the segment relative to landmark.  Positions
              follow standard 1-based sequence rules.  If not specified,
              defaults to the beginning of the landmark.

-end          End of the segment relative to the landmark.  If not specified,
              defaults to the end of the landmark.

The return value is a list of Bio::Das::SegmentI objects. If the method is called in a scalar context and there are no more than one segments that satisfy the request, then it is allowed to return the segment. Otherwise, the method must throw a "multiple segment exception".

features

Title   : features
Usage   : $db->features(@args)
Function: get all features, possibly filtered by type
Returns : a list of Bio::SeqFeatureI objects
Args    : see below
Status  : public

This routine will retrieve features in the database regardless of position. It can be used to return all features, or a subset based on their type

Arguments are -option=>value pairs as follows:

-type      List of feature types to return.  Argument is an array
           of Bio::Das::FeatureTypeI objects or a set of strings
           that can be converted into FeatureTypeI objects.

-callback   A callback to invoke on each feature.  The subroutine
            will be passed each Bio::SeqFeatureI object in turn.

-attributes A hash reference containing attributes to match.

The -attributes argument is a hashref containing one or more attributes to match against:

-attributes => { Gene => 'abc-1',
                 Note => 'confirmed' }

Attribute matching is simple exact string matching, and multiple attributes are ANDed together.

If one provides a callback, it will be invoked on each feature in turn. If the callback returns a false value, iteration will be interrupted. When a callback is provided, the method returns undef.

types

Title   : types
Usage   : $db->types(@args)
Function: return list of feature types in database
Returns : a list of Bio::Das::FeatureTypeI objects
Args    : see below

This routine returns a list of feature types known to the database. It is also possible to find out how many times each feature occurs.

Arguments are -option=>value pairs as follows:

-enumerate  if true, count the features

The returned value will be a list of Bio::Das::FeatureTypeI objects (see Bio::Das::FeatureTypeI.

If -enumerate is true, then the function returns a hash (not a hash reference) in which the keys are the stringified versions of Bio::Das::FeatureTypeI and the values are the number of times each feature appears in the database.

NOTE: This currently raises a "not-implemented" exception, as the BioSQL API does not appear to provide this functionality.

get_feature_by_alias, get_features_by_alias

Title   : get_features_by_alias
Usage   : $db->get_feature_by_alias(@args)
Function: return list of feature whose name or synonyms match
Returns : a list of Bio::Das::Chado::Segment::Feature objects
Args    : See below

This method finds features matching the criteria outlined by the supplied arguments. Wildcards (*) are allowed. Valid arguments are:

-name
-class
-ref (refrence sequence)
-start
-end

get_feature_by_name, get_features_by_name

Title   : get_features_by_name
Usage   : $db->get_features_by_name(@args)
Function: return list of feature whose names match
Returns : a list of Bio::Das::Chado::Segment::Feature objects
Args    : See below

This method finds features matching the criteria outlined by the supplied arguments. Wildcards (*) are allowed. Valid arguments are:

-name
-class
-ref (refrence sequence)
-start
-end

_by_alias_by_name

Title   : _by_alias_by_name
Usage   : $db->_by_alias_by_name(@args)
Function: return list of feature whose names match
Returns : a list of Bio::Das::Chado::Segment::Feature objects
Args    : See below

A private method that implements the get_features_by_name and get_features_by_alias methods. It accepts the same args as those methods, plus an addtional on (-operation) which is either 'by_alias' or 'by_name' to indicate what rule it is to use for finding features.

srcfeature2name

returns a srcfeature name given a srcfeature_id

gff_source_db_id

Title   : gff_source_db_id
Function: caches the chado db_id from the chado db table

gff_source_dbxref_id

Gets dbxref_id for features that have a gff source associated

dbxref2source

returns the source (string) when given a dbxref_id

source_dbxref_list

Title   : source_dbxref_list
Usage   : @all_dbxref_ids = $db->source_dbxref_list()
Function: Gets a list of all dbxref_ids that are used for GFF sources
Returns : a comma delimited string that is a list of dbxref_ids
Args    : none
Status  : public

This method queries the database for all dbxref_ids that are used to store GFF source terms.

search_notes

Title   : search_notes
Usage   : $db->search_notes($search_term,$max_results)
Function: full-text search on features, ENSEMBL-style
Returns : an array of [$name,$description,$score]
Args    : see below
Status  : public

This routine performs a full-text search on feature attributes (which attributes depend on implementation) and returns a list of [$name,$description,$score], where $name is the feature ID (accession?), $description is a human-readable description such as a locus line, and $score is the match strength.

NOT YET ACTIVE: search_notes IS IN TESTING STAGE

sub search_notes { my $self = shift; my ($search_string,$limit) = @_; my $limit_str; if (defined $limit) { $limit_str = " LIMIT $limit "; } else { $limit_str = ""; }

# so here's the plan: # if there is only 1 word, do 1-3 # 1. search for accessions like $string.'%'--if any are found, quit and return them # 2. search for feature.name like $string.'%'--if found, keep and continue # 3. search somewhere in analysis like $string.'%'--if found, keep and continue # if there is more than one word, don't search accessions # 4. search each word anded together like '%'.$string.'%' --if found, keep and continue # 5. search somewhere in analysis like '%'.$string.'%'

# $self->dbh->trace(1);

my @search_str = split /\s+/, $search_string;
my $qsearch_term = $self->dbh->quote($search_str[0]);
my $like_str = "( (dbx.accession ~* $qsearch_term OR \n"
      ."           f.name        ~* $qsearch_term) ";
for (my $i=1;$i<(scalar @search_str);$i++) {
  $qsearch_term = $self->dbh->quote($search_str[$i]);
  $like_str .= "and \n";
  $like_str .= "          (dbx.accession ~* $qsearch_term OR \n"
              ."           f.name        ~* $qsearch_term) ";
} 
$like_str .= ")";

my $sth = $self->dbh->prepare("
   select dbx.accession,f.name,0 
   from feature f, dbxref dbx, feature_dbxref fd
   where
      f.feature_id = fd.feature_id and
      fd.dbxref_id = dbx.dbxref_id and 
      $like_str 
   $limit_str
  ");
$sth->execute or throw ("couldn't execute keyword query");

my @results;
while (my ($acc, $name, $score) = $sth->fetchrow_array) {
  $score = sprintf("%.2f",$score);
  push @results, [$acc, $name, $score];
}
$sth->finish;
return @results;
}

attributes

Title   : attributes
Usage   : @attributes = $db->attributes($id,$name)
Function: get the "attributes" on a particular feature
Returns : an array of string
Args    : feature ID [, attribute name]
Status  : public

This method is intended as a "work-alike" to Bio::DB::GFF's attributes method, which has the following returns:

Called in list context, it returns a list. If called in a scalar context, it returns the first value of the attribute if an attribute name is provided, otherwise it returns a hash reference in which the keys are attribute names and the values are anonymous arrays containing the values.

_segclass

Title   : _segclass
Usage   : $class = $db->_segclass
Function: returns the perl class that we use for segment() calls
Returns : a string containing the segment class
Args    : none
Status  : reserved for subclass use

chado_reference_class

Title   : chado_reference_class 
Usage   : $obj->chado_reference_class()
Function: get or return the ID to use for Gbrowse map reference class 
          using cvtermprop table, value = MAP_REFERENCE_TYPE 
Returns : the cvterm.name 
Args    : to return the id, none; to determine the id, 1
See also: default_class, refclass_feature_id

Optionally test that user/config supplied ref class is indeed a proper
chado feature type.

refclass_feature_id

Title   : refclass_feature_id
Usage   : $self->refclass_srcfeature_id()
Function: Used to store the feature_id of the reference class feature we are working on (e.g. contig, supercontig)
          With this feature we can filter out all the request to be sure we are extracting a feature located on 
          the reference class feature.
Returns : A scalar
Args    : The feature_id on setting

LEFTOVERS FROM BIO::DB::GFF NEEDED FOR DAS

these methods should probably be declared in an interface class that Bio::DB::GFF implements. for instance, the aggregator methods could be described in Bio::SeqFeature::AggregatorI

END LEFTOVERS

To install Bio::DB::Das::Chado, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.

cpanm

cpanm Bio::DB::Das::Chado

CPAN shell

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Bio::DB::Das::Chado

For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.

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APPENDIX

new

feature_summary

coverage_array

tripal

fulltext

refclass

use_all_feature_names

organism_id

inferCDS

allow_obsolete

sofa_id

recursivMapping

srcfeatureslice

do2Level

dbh

term2name

name2term

segment

features

types

get_feature_by_alias, get_features_by_alias

get_feature_by_name, get_features_by_name

_by_alias_by_name

srcfeature2name

gff_source_db_id

gff_source_dbxref_id

dbxref2source

source_dbxref_list

search_notes

** NOT YET ACTIVE: search_notes IS IN TESTING STAGE **

attributes

_segclass

chado_reference_class

refclass_feature_id

LEFTOVERS FROM BIO::DB::GFF NEEDED FOR DAS

END LEFTOVERS

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