Bio::Biblio::Ref - Representation of a bibliographic reference $obj = new Bio::Biblio::Ref (-type => 'Letter', -title => 'Onegin to Tatiana'); #--- OR --- $obj = new Bio::Biblio::Ref; $obj->type ('Letter'); A storage object for a general bibliographic reference (a citation). See its place in the class hierarchy in http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/openBQS/images/bibobjects_perl.gif

Attributes
The following attributes are specific to this class, and they are inherited by all citation types. author_list_complete values: 'Y' (default) or 'N' authors type: array ref of Bio::Biblio::Provider's cross_references type: array ref of Bio::Annotation::DBLink's cross_references_list_complete values: 'Y' (default) or 'N' abstract abstract_language abstract_type codes type: hash ref contributors type: array ref of Bio::Biblio::Provider's date date_completed date_created date_revised format identifier keywords language last_modified_date publisher type: Bio::Biblio::Provider repository_subset rights spatial_location subject_headings type: hash ref subject_headings_source temporal_period title toc toc_type type OpenBQS home page: http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/openBQS Comments to the Perl client: http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/openBQS/Client_perl.html

Mailing Lists
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Reporting Bugs
Report bugs to the Bioperl bug tracking system to help us keep track of the bugs and their resolution. Bug reports can be submitted via email or the web: bioperl-bugs@bioperl.org http://bugzilla.bioperl.org/ Heikki Lehvaslaiho (heikki@ebi.ac.uk), Martin Senger (senger@ebi.ac.uk) Copyright (c) 2002 European Bioinformatics Institute. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. This software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are preceded with a _

add_cross_reference
Usage : $self->add_cross_reference (new Bio::Annotation::DBLink (-database => 'EMBL', -primary_id => 'V00808'); Function: adding a link to a database entry Returns : new value of 'cross_references' Args : an object of type Bio::Annotation::DBLink

add_author
Usage : $self->add_author (new Bio::Biblio::Person (-lastname => 'Novak'); Function: adding an author to a list of authors Returns : new value of 'authors' (a full list) Args : an object of type Bio::Biblio::Provider

add_contributor
Usage : $self->add_contributor (new Bio::Biblio::Person (-lastname => 'Novak'); Function: adding a contributor to a list of contributors Returns : new value of 'contributors' (a full list) Args : an object of type Bio::Biblio::Provider