Bio::Map::OrderedPositionWithDistance.3pm

Langue: en

Version: 2008-01-11 (mandriva - 01/05/08)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

NAME

Bio::Map::OrderedPositionWithDistance - Abstracts the notion of a member         of an ordered list of markers. Each marker is a certain distance
        from the one in the ordered list before it.

SYNOPSIS

     use Bio::Map::OrderedPositionWithDistance;
         # the first marker in the sequence
     my $position = new Bio::Map::OrderedPositionWithDistance(-positions => 1,
                         -distance => 22.3 );
         # the second marker in the sequence, 15.6 units from the fist one
     my $position2 = new Bio::Map::OrderedPositionWithDistance(-positions => 2,
                         -distance => 15.6 );
         # the third marker in the sequence, coincidental with the second
         # marker
     my $position3 = new Bio::Map::OrderedPositionWithDistance(-positions => 3,
                         -distance => 0 );
 
 

DESCRIPTION

This object is an implementation of the PositionI interface and the Position object handles the specific values of a position. OrderedPositionWithDistance is intended to be slightly more specific then Position but only specific enough for a parser from the MarkerIO subsystem to create and then pass to a client application to bless into the proper type. For an example of how this is intended to work, see the Mapmaker.pm.

No units are assumed here - units are handled by context of which Map a position is placed in.

Se Bio::Map::Position for additional information.

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AUTHOR - Chad Matsalla

Email bioinformatics1@dieselwurks.com

CONTRIBUTORS

Lincoln Stein, lstein@cshl.org Heikki Lehvaslaiho, heikki-at-bioperl-dot-org

APPENDIX

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

new

  Title   : new
  Usage   : my $obj = new Bio::Map::OrderedPositionWithDistance();
  Function: Builds a new Bio::Map::OrderedPositionWithDistance object 
  Returns : Bio::Map::OrderedPositionWithDistance
  Args    : -positions  - Should be a single value representing the order
         of this marker within the list of markers
         -distance - The distance this marker is from the marker before it.
                 0 reflects coincidentality.
 
 

distance($new_distance)

  Title   : distance($new_distance)
  Usage   : $position->distance(new_distance) _or_
         $position->distance()
  Function: get/set the distance of this position from the previous marker
  Returns : A scalar representing the current distance for this position.
  Args    : If $new_distance is provided the distance of this Position will
         be set to $new_distance