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bioperl-1.5.2_004-RC
/ Bio::DB::Query::GenBank

NAME

Bio::DB::Query::GenBank - Build a GenBank Entrez Query

SYNOPSIS

   my $query_string = 'Oryza[Organism] AND EST[Keyword]';
   my $query = Bio::DB::Query::GenBank->new(-db=>'nucleotide',
                                            -query=>$query_string,
					    -mindate => '2001',
					    -maxdate => '2002');
   my $count = $query->count;
   my @ids   = $query->ids;

   # get a genbank database handle
   my $gb = new Bio::DB::GenBank;
   my $stream = $gb->get_Stream_by_query($query);
   while (my $seq = $stream->next_seq) {
      # do something with the sequence object
   }

   # initialize the list yourself
   my $query = Bio::DB::Query::GenBank->new(-ids=>[195052,2981014,11127914]);

DESCRIPTION

This class encapsulates NCBI Entrez queries. It can be used to store a list of GI numbers, to translate an Entrez query expression into a list of GI numbers, or to count the number of terms that would be returned by a query. Once created, the query object can be passed to a Bio::DB::GenBank object in order to retrieve the entries corresponding to the query.

FEEDBACK

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Reporting Bugs

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AUTHOR - Lincoln Stein

Email lstein@cshl.org

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::Query::GenBank->new(@args)
Function: create new query object
Returns : new query object
Args    : -db       database ('protein' or 'nucleotide')
          -query    query string
          -mindate  minimum date to retrieve from
          -maxdate  maximum date to retrieve from
          -reldate  relative date to retrieve from (days)
          -datetype date field to use ('edat' or 'mdat')
          -ids      array ref of gids (overrides query)
          -maxids   the maximum number of IDs you wish to collect (defaults to 100)

This method creates a new query object. Typically you will specify a -db and a -query argument, possibly modified by -mindate, -maxdate, or -reldate. -mindate and -maxdate specify minimum and maximum dates for entries you are interested in retrieving, expressed in the form YYYY/MM/DD. -reldate is used to fetch entries that are more recent than the indicated number of days.

If you provide an array reference of IDs in -ids, the query will be ignored and the list of IDs will be used when the query is passed to a Bio::DB::GenBank object's get_Stream_by_query() method. A variety of IDs are automatically recognized, including GI numbers, Accession numbers, Accession.version numbers and locus names.

By default, the query will collect only the first 100 IDs and will generate an exception if you call the ids() method and the query returned more than that number. To increase this maximum, set -maxids to a number larger than the number of IDs you expect to obtain. This only affects the list of IDs you obtain when you call the ids() method, and does not affect in any way the number of entries you receive when you generate a SeqIO stream from the query.

Title   : cookie
Usage   : ($cookie,$querynum) = $db->cookie
Function: return the NCBI query cookie
Returns : list of (cookie,querynum)
Args    : none

NOTE: this information is used by Bio::DB::GenBank in conjunction with efetch.

_request_parameters

Title   : _request_parameters
Usage   : ($method,$base,@params = $db->_request_parameters
Function: return information needed to construct the request
Returns : list of method, url base and key=>value pairs
Args    : none

count

Title   : count
Usage   : $count = $db->count;
Function: return count of number of entries retrieved by query
Returns : integer
Args    : none

Returns the number of entries that are matched by the query.

ids

Title   : ids
Usage   : @ids = $db->ids([@ids])
Function: get/set matching ids
Returns : array of sequence ids
Args    : (optional) array ref with new set of ids

query

Title   : query
Usage   : $query = $db->query([$query])
Function: get/set query string
Returns : string
Args    : (optional) new query string

_parse_response

Title   : _parse_response
Usage   : $db->_parse_response($content)
Function: parse out response
Returns : empty
Args    : none
Throws  : 'unparseable output exception'