Bio::Map::PositionI(3)

NAME
Bio::Map::PositionI - Abstracts the notion of a position having
  a value in the context of a marker and a Map

SYNOPSIS
    # do not use directly

DESCRIPTION
This object stores one of the postions a that a mappable object (e.g. Marker) may have in a map (e.g. restriction enzymes or a SNP mapped to several chromosomes).

The method numeric() returns the position in a form that can be compared between other positions of the same type.

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AUTHOR - Jason Stajich
Email jason@bioperl.org

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CONTRIBUTORS
Lincoln Stein, lstein@cshl.org Heikki Lehvaslaiho, heikki@ebi.ac.uk

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

  map
 Title   : map
 Usage   : my $id = map->$map;
 Function: Get/Set the map the position is in.
 Returns : L<Bio::Map::MapI>
 Args    : [optional] new L<Bio::Map::MapI>

  marker
 Title   : marker
 Usage   : my $id = marker->$marker;
 Function: Get/Set the marker the position is in.
 Returns : L<Bio::Map::MarkerI>
 Args    : [optional] new L<Bio::Map::MarkerI>

  value
 Title   : value
 Usage   : my $pos = $position->value;
 Function: Get/Set the value for this position
 Returns : scalar, value
 Args    : [optional] new value to set

  numeric
 Title   : numeric
 Usage   : my $num = $position->numeric;
 Function: Read-only method that is guarantied to return
           representation for this position that can be compared with others
 Returns : numeric (int, real or range)
 Args    : none