NAME

Bio::FeatureIO::vecscreen_simple - read/write features from NCBI vecscreen -f 3 output

SYNOPSIS

    # read features 
    my $fin = Bio::FeatureIO->new(-file=>'vecscreen.out',
                                  -format=>'vecscreen_simple');
    my @vec_regions;
    while (my $f = $fin->next_feature) {
      push @vec_regions, $f;
    }
    
    # write features NOT IMPLEMENTED

DESCRIPTION

vecscreen is a system for quickly identifying segments of a nucleic acid sequence that may be of vector origin. NCBI developed vecscreen to minimize the incidence and impact of vector contamination in public sequence databases. GenBank Annotation Staff use vecscreen to verify that sequences submitted for inclusion in the database are free from contaminating vector sequence. Any sequence can be screened for vector contamination using vecscreen.

This module provides parsing for vecscreen '-f 3' output, described in the vecscreen documentation as 'Text list, no alignments'

FEEDBACK

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Support

Please direct usage questions or support issues to the mailing list:

bioperl-l@bioperl.org

rather than to the module maintainer directly. Many experienced and reponsive experts will be able look at the problem and quickly address it. Please include a thorough description of the problem with code and data examples if at all possible.

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to the Bioperl bug tracking system to help us keep track of the bugs and their resolution. Bug reports can be submitted via the web:

 http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/

AUTHOR - Robert Buels

Email rmb32 AT cornell.edu

CONTRIBUTORS

Based on ptt.pm by Torsten Seeman

APPENDIX

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

_initialize

Title : _initialize Function: Reading? parses the header of the input Writing?

next_feature

  Title   : next_feature
  Usage   : $io->next_feature()
  Function: read the next feature from the vecscreen output file
  Args    : none
  Returns : Bio::SeqFeatureI object

write_feature (NOT IMPLEMENTED)

  Title   : write_feature
  Usage   : $io->write_feature($feature)
  Function: write a Bio::SeqFeatureI object in vecscreen -f 3 format
  Example :
  Args    : Bio::SeqFeatureI object
  Returns :