Bio::Factory::EMBOSS(3)

NAME
Bio::Factory::EMBOSS - EMBOSS appliaction factory class

SYNOPSIS
  # get an EMBOSS factory
  use Bio::Factory::EMBOSS;
  $f = Bio::Factory::EMBOSS -> new();
  # get an EMBOSS application  object from the factory
  $water = $f->program('water');

  # here is an example of running the application
  # water can compare 1 seq against 1->many sequences
  # in a database using Smith-Waterman
  my $seq_to_test; # this would have a seq here
  my @seqs_to_check; # this would be a list of seqs to compare
                     # (could be just 1)
  my $wateroutfile = 'out.water';
  $water->run({ '-sequencea' => $seq_to_test,
              '-seqall'    => \@seqs_to_check,
              '-gapopen'   => '10.0',
              '-gapextend' => '0.5',
              '-outfile'   => $wateroutfile});
  # now you might want to get the alignment
  use Bio::AlignIO;
  my $alnin = new Bio::AlignIO(-format => 'emboss',
                               -file   => $wateroutfile);

  while( my $aln = $alnin->next_aln ) {
      # process the alignment -- these will be Bio::SimpleAlign objects
  }

DESCRIPTION
The EMBOSS factory class encapsulates access to EMBOSS programs. A factory object allows creation of only known applications.

If you want to check command line options before sending them to the program set $factory->verbose to positive integer. The value is passed on to programs objects and the ADC description of the available command line options is parsed and compared to input.

See also Bio::Tools::Run::EMBOSSApplication and Bio::Tools::Run::EMBOSSacd.

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AUTHOR - Heikki Lehvaslaiho
Email: heikki@ebi.ac.uk Address:

     EMBL Outstation, European Bioinformatics Institute
     Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton
     Cambs. CB10 1SD, United Kingdom

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

  location
 Title   : location
 Usage   : $embossfactory->location
 Function: get/set the location of EMBOSS programs.
           Valid values are 'local' and 'novella'.
 Returns : string, defaults to 'local'
 Args    : string

  program
 Title   : program
 Usage   : $embossfactory->program('program_name')
 Function: Creates a representation of a single EMBOSS program
 Returns : Bio::Tools::Run::EMBOSSApplication object
 Args    : string, program name

  version
 Title   : $self->version
 Usage   : $embossfactory->version()
 Function: gets the version of EMBOSS programs
 Throws  : if EMBOSS suite is not accessible
 Returns : version value
 Args    : None

  Programs
These methods allow the programmer to query the EMBOSS suite and find out which program names can be used and what arguments can be used.

  program_info
 Title   : program_info
 Usage   : $embossfactory->program_info('emma')
 Function: Finds out if the program is available.
 Returns : definition string of the program, undef if program name not known
 Args    : string, prgramname

  Internal methods
Do not call these methods directly

  _program_list
 Title   : _program_list
 Usage   : $embossfactory->_program_list()
 Function: Finds out what programs are available.
           Writes the names into an internal hash.
 Returns : true if successful
 Args    : None