Bio::Map::FPCMarker(3)

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 ***