NAME

GeneFeature


DESCRIPTION

Description for GeneFeature


AUTHOR

Tim Hubbard Email th@sanger.ac.uk


Functions

new_from_line
Method to parse a tab delimited line into a GeneFeature object

dump
Method to return a formatted output of a GeneFeature object to a filehandle. Uses dump_string

dump_string
Method to return a formatted output of a GeneFeature object to a string.

dump_pair
Method to return a formatted output of a GeneFeature object to a filehandle. Uses dump_string. Includes information about any pairing.

match
Method to compare two GeneFeature objects to look for an overlap returns 5 scalars as an array

  1. 0 or 1 indicating if objects match by criteria supplied

  2. number indicating signed difference in 5' end of 2 objects

  3. number indicating signed difference in 3' end of 2 objects

  4. 0 if no overlap; 1 if match; 2 if overlap, but rejected on tolerance+single; 3 if overlap, but rejected on strand;

  5. descriptive string about overlap, if there is one

overlap_logical
Method that uses overlap method to return a simple y/n answer on there being an 'overlap'

addPair
Method to add a reference to a GeneFeaturePair object

getPair
Method to get reference to a GeneFeaturePair object. Returns number of GeneFeaturePair objects followed by object selected

getPair_logical
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