Bio::DB::Failover(3)

NAME
Bio::DB::Failover - A Bio::DB::RandomAccessI compliant class which wraps a priority list of DBs

SYNOPSIS
    $failover = Bio::DB::Failover->new();

    $failover->add_database($db);

    # fail over Bio::DB::RandomAccessI.pm

    # this will check each database in priority, returning when
    # the first one succeeds

    $seq = $failover->get_Seq_by_id($id);

DESCRIPTION
This module provides fail over access to a set of Bio::DB::RandomAccessI objects

CONTACT
Ewan Birney originally wrote this class.

  Reporting Bugs
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    http://bugzilla.bioperl.org/

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

  add_database
 Title   : add_database
 Usage   : add_database(%db)
 Function: Adds a database to the
 Returns : count of number of databases
 Args    : hash of db resource name to Bio::DB::SeqI object

  get_Seq_by_id
 Title   : get_Seq_by_id
 Usage   : $seq = $db->get_Seq_by_id('ROA1_HUMAN')
 Function: Gets a Bio::Seq object by its name
 Returns : a Bio::Seq object
 Args    : the id (as a string) of a sequence
 Throws  : "id does not exist" exception

  get_Seq_by_acc
 Title   : get_Seq_by_acc
 Usage   : $seq = $db->get_Seq_by_acc('X77802');
 Function: Gets a Bio::Seq object by accession number
 Returns : A Bio::Seq object
 Args    : accession number (as a string)
 Throws  : "acc does not exist" exception

  get_Seq_by_acc
 Title   : get_Seq_by_acc
 Usage   : $seq = $db->get_Seq_by_acc('X77802');
 Function: Gets a Bio::Seq object by accession number
 Returns : A Bio::Seq object
 Args    : accession number (as a string)
 Throws  : "acc does not exist" exception