NAME

Bio::Map::FPCMarker - An central map object representing a marker

SYNOPSIS

# get the marker object of $marker from the Bio::Map::FPCMarker
my $markerobj = $physical->get_markerobj($marker);

# acquire all the clones that hit this marker
foreach my $clone ($markerobj->each_cloneid()) {
    print "   +++$clone\n";
}

# find the position of this marker in $contig
print "Position in contig $contig"," = ",$markerobj->position($contig),
      "\n";

# find the group of the marker
print "Group : ",$markerobj->group();

See Bio::Map::Position and Bio::Map::PositionI for more information.

DESCRIPTION

This object handles the notion of a marker. This object is intended to be used by a map parser like fpc.pm.

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AUTHOR - Gaurav Gupta

Email gaurav@genome.arizona.edu

CONTRIBUTORS

Sendu Bala bix@sendu.me.uk

PROJECT LEADERS

Jamie Hatfield jamie@genome.arizona.edu Dr. Cari Soderlund cari@genome.arizona.edu

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The project was done in Arizona Genomics Computational Laboratory (AGCoL) at University of Arizona.

This work was funded by USDA-IFAFS grant #11180 titled "Web Resources for the Computation and Display of Physical Mapping Data".

For more information on this project, please refer: http://www.genome.arizona.edu

APPENDIX

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

new

 Title   : new
 Usage   : my $clone = Bio::Map::FPCMarker->new
                      (
		       -name    => $marker,
		       -type    => $type,
		       -global  => $global,
		       -frame   => $frame,
		       -group   => $group,
		       -subgroup=> $subgroup,
		       -anchor  => $anchor,
		       -clones  => \%clones,
		       -contigs => \%contigs,
		       -position => \%markerpos,
               -remark => $remark
		       );

 Function: Initialize a new Bio::Map::FPCMarker object
           Most people will not use this directly but get Markers
           through L<Bio::MapIO::fpc>
 Returns : L<Bio::Map::FPCMarker> object
 Args    : -name     => marker name string,
	       -type     => type string,
	       -global   => global position for marker,
	       -frame    => boolean if marker is framework or placement,
	       -group    => group number for marker,
	       -subgroup => subgroup number of marker,
	       -anchor   => boolean if marker is anchored,
	       -clones   => all the clone elements in map (hashref),
	       -contigs  => all the contig elements (hasref),
	       -position => mapping of marker names to map position (hasref),
           -remark   => remarks, separated by newlines

Access Methods

These methods let you get and set the member variables

name

Title   : name
Usage   : my $name = $markerobj->name();
Function: Get/set the name for this marker
Returns : scalar representing the current name of this marker
Args    : none to get, OR string to set

type

Title   : type
Usage   : my $type = $markerobj->type();
Function: Get/set the type for this marker
Returns : scalar representing the current type of this marker
Args    : none to get, OR string to set

global

Title   : global
Usage   : my $type = $markerobj->global();
Function: Get/set the global position for this marker
Returns : scalar representing the current global position of this marker
Args    : none to get, OR string to set

anchor

Title   : anchor
Usage   : my $anchor = $markerobj->anchor();
Function: indicate if the Marker is anchored or not (True | False)
Returns : scalar representing the anchor (1 | 0) for this marker
Args    : none to get, OR 1|0 to set

framework

Title   : framework
Usage   : $frame = $markerobj->framework();
Function: indicate if the Marker is framework or placement (1 | 0)
Returns : scalar representing if the marker is framework
          (1 if framework, 0 if placement)
Args    : none to get, OR 1|0 to set

group

Title   : group
Usage   : $grpno = $markerobj->group();
Function: Get/set the group number for this marker. This is a generic term,
          used for Linkage-Groups as well as for Chromosomes.
Returns : scalar representing the group number of this marker
Args    : none to get, OR string to set

subgroup

Title   : subgroup
Usage   : $subgroup = $marker->subgroup();	
Function: Get/set the subgroup for this marker. This is a generic term:
          subgroup here could represent subgroup of a Chromosome or of a
          Linkage Group. The user must take care of which subgroup he/she is
          querying for.	
Returns : scalar representing the subgroup of this marker
Args    : none to get, OR string to set

position

Title   : position
Usage   : $markerpos = $markerobj->position($ctg);
Function: get the position of the marker in the contig
Returns : scalar representing the position of the markernumber of
          the contig
Args    : $ctg is necessary to look for the position of the marker
          in that contig.

*** This has nothing to do with an actual Bio::Map::PositionI object ***

remark

Title   : remark
Usage   : $markerremark = $markerobj->remark();
Function: get the remarks for this marker
Returns : scalar of newline-separated markers
Args    : none

each_cloneid

Title   : each_cloneid
Usage   : my @clones  = $map->each_cloneid();
Function: retrieves all the clone ids in a map unordered
Returns : list of strings (ids)
Args    : none

*** This only supplies the ids set with the set_clones method ***
*** It has nothing to do with actual Bio::Map::MappableI objects ***

each_contigid

Title   : each_contigid
Usage   : my @contigs = $map->each_contigid();
Function: retrieves all the contig ids in a map unordered
Returns : list of strings (ids)
Args    : none

*** This only supplies the ids set with the set_contigs method ***
*** It has nothing to do with actual Bio::Map::MapI objects ***

set_clones

Title   : set_clones
Usage   : $marker->set_clones(\%clones)
Function: Set the clone ids hashref
Returns : None
Args    : Hashref of clone ids

*** This only sets a hash of ids ***
*** It has nothing to do with actual Bio::Map::MappableI objects ***

set_contigs

Title   : set_contigs
Usage   : $marker->set_contigs(\%contigs)
Function: Set the contig ids hashref
Returns : None
Args    : Hashref of contig ids

*** This only sets a hash of ids ***
*** It has nothing to do with actual Bio::Map::MapI objects ***

set_positions

Title   : set_positions
Usage   : $marker->set_positions(\%markerpos)
Function: Set the positions hashref
Returns : None
Args    : Hashref of marker positions

*** This only sets a hash of numbers ***
*** It has nothing to do with actual Bio::Map::PositionI objects ***