NAME
Bio::MAGETAB::Material - Abstract material class
SYNOPSIS
use Bio::MAGETAB::Material;DESCRIPTION
This class is an abstract class from which all MAGE-TAB Material classes (Source, Sample, Extract, LabeledExtract) are derived. It cannot be instantiated directly. See the Node class for superclass methods.
ATTRIBUTES
- name (required)
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The name of the material (data type: String).
- materialType (optional)
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The type of the material (e.g. 'whole_organism', 'organism_part', 'RNA' etc.), usually from a suitable ontology (data type: Bio::MAGETAB::ControlledTerm).
- description (optional)
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A free-text description of the material. In general the use of this attribute is discouraged due to the difficulty of computationally parsing natural languages (data type: String).
- characteristics (optional)
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A list of characteristics of the material. These may describe any aspect of the material, and should ideally be taken from an appropriate ontology (data type: Bio::MAGETAB::ControlledTerm).
- measurements (optional)
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A list of measurements of the material. These may describe any measurable property of the material. Units are handled by the Measurement class (data type: Bio::MAGETAB::Measurement).
METHODS
Each attribute has accessor (get_*) and mutator (set_*) methods, and also predicate (has_*) and clearer (clear_*) methods where the attribute is optional. Where an attribute represents a one-to-many relationship the mutator accepts an arrayref and the accessor returns an array.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Tim F. Rayner <tfrayner@gmail.com>
LICENSE
This library is released under version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPL).