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/ Bio::DB::Biblio::biofetch

NAME

Bio::DB::Biblio::biofetch - A BioFetch-based access to a bibliographic citation retrieval

SYNOPSIS

Do not use this object directly, only access it through the Bio::Biblio module:

use Bio::Biblio;
my $biblio = new Bio::Biblio (-access => 'biofetch');
my $ref = $biblio->get_by_id('20063307'));

my $ids = ['20063307', '98276153'];
my $refio = $biblio->get_all($ids);
while ($ref = $refio->next_bibref) { 
  print $ref->identifier, "\n";
}

DESCRIPTION

This class uses BioFetch protocol based service to retrieve Medline references by their ID.

FEEDBACK

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AUTHOR

Heikki Lehvaslaiho (heikki-at-bioperl-dot-org)

COPYRIGHT

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.

DISCLAIMER

This software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

  • Only method get_by_id() is supported.

APPENDIX

The main documentation details are to be found in Bio::DB::BiblioI.

Here is the rest of the object methods. Internal methods are preceded with an underscore _.

get_by_id

Title   : get_by_id
Usage   : $entry = $db->get__by_id('20063307')
Function: Gets a Bio::Biblio::RefI object by its name
Returns : a Bio::Biblio::Medline object
Args    : the id (as a string) of the reference

get_all

Title   : get_all
Usage   : $seq = $db->get_all($ref);
Function: Retrieves reference objects from the server 'en masse', 
          rather than one  at a time.  For large numbers of sequences, 
          this is far superior than get_by_id().
Example :
Returns : a stream of Bio::Biblio::Medline objects
Args    : $ref : either an array reference, a filename, or a filehandle
          from which to get the list of unique ids/accession numbers.

get_seq_stream

Title   : get_seq_stream
Usage   : my $seqio = $self->get_seq_stream(%qualifiers)
Function: builds a url and queries a web db
Returns : a Bio::SeqIO stream capable of producing sequence
Args    : %qualifiers = a hash qualifiers that the implementing class 
          will process to make a url suitable for web querying

postprocess_data

 Title   : postprocess_data
 Usage   : $self->postprocess_data ( 'type' => 'string',
				     'location' => \$datastr);
 Function: process downloaded data before loading into a Bio::SeqIO
 Returns : void
 Args    : hash with two keys - 'type' can be 'string' or 'file'
                              - 'location' either file location or string 
                                           reference containing data

VERSION and Revision

Usage   : print $Bio::DB::Biblio::biofetch::VERSION;
          print $Bio::DB::Biblio::biofetch::Revision;

Defaults

Usage   : print $Bio::DB::Biblio::biofetch::DEFAULT_SERVICE;