Bio::LiveSeq::DNA - DNA object for LiveSeq # documentation needed This holds the DNA sequence (or the RNA in the case of cDNA entries) and is accessed by exons, genes, transcripts... objects Email: Insana@ebi.ac.uk, jinsana@gmx.net Address: EMBL Outstation, European Bioinformatics Institute Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton Cambs. CB10 1SD, United Kingdom The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _

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Title : new Usage : $dna = Bio::LiveSeq::DNA->new(-seq => "atcgaccaatggacctca", -offset => 3 ); Function: generates a new Bio::LiveSeq::DNA Returns : reference to a new object of class DNA Errorcode -1 Args : a string AND an optional offset to create nucleotide labels (default is 1, i.e. starting the count of labels from "1") -> do not bother using it -> it could be used by alternative loaders !EMBL format NOTE : strand of DNA is set to 1 by default