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bioperl-1.5.2_004-RCb
/ Bio::FeatureIO::ptt

NAME

Bio::FeatureIO::ptt - read/write features in PTT format

SYNOPSIS

# read features 
my $fin = Bio::FeatureIO->new(-file=>'genes.ptt', -format=>'ptt');
my @cds;
while (my $f = $fin->next_feature) {
  push @cds, $f if $f->strand > 0;
}

# write features (NOT IMPLEMENTED)
my $fout = Bio::FeatureIO->new(-fh=>\*STDOUT, -format=>'ptt');
for my $f (@cds) {
  $fout->write_feature($f);
}

DESCRIPTION

The PTT file format is a table of protein features. It is used mainly by NCBI who produce PTT files for all their published genomes found in ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/. It has the following format:

==over 4

Line 1

Description of sequence to which the features belong eg. "Leptospira interrogans chromosome II, complete sequence - 0..358943"

It is usually equivalent to the DEFINITION line of a Genbank file, with the length of the sequence appended. It is unclear why "0" is used as a starting range, it should be "1".

Line 2

Number of feature lines in the table eg. "367 proteins"

Line 3

Column headers, tab separated eg. "Location Strand Length PID Gene Synonym Code COG Product"

Location : "begin..end" span of feature
Strand   : "+" or "-"
Length   : number of amino acids excluding the stop codon
PID      : analogous to Genbank /db_xref="GI:xxxxxxxxx"
Gene     : analogous to Genbank /gene="xxxx"
Synonym  : analogous to Genbank /locus_tag="xxxx"
Synonym  : analogous to Genbank /locus_tag="xxxx"
COG      : CDD COG code with COG letter categories appended
Product  : analogous to Genbank /product="xxxx"
Line 4 onwards

Feature lines, nine columns, tab separated, "-" used for empty fields eg. "2491..3423 + 310 24217063 metF LB002 - COG0685E 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase"

==back

FEEDBACK

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AUTHOR - Torsten Seemann

Email torsten.seemann AT infotech.monash.edu.au

CONTRIBUTORS

Based on bed.pm and gff.pm by Allen Day.

APPENDIX

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

_initialize

Title   : _initialize
Function: Reading? parses the header of the input
          Writing?

next_feature

Title   : next_feature
Usage   : $io->next_feature()
Function: read the next feature from the PTT file
Example : 
Args    : 
Returns : Bio::SeqFeatureI object

write_feature (NOT IMPLEMENTED)

Title   : write_feature
Usage   : $io->write_feature($feature)
Function: write a Bio::SeqFeatureI object in PTT format
Example : 
Args    : Bio::SeqFeatureI object
Returns :

description

Title   : description
Usage   : $obj->description($newval)
Function: set/get the PTT file description for/from line one
Example : 
Returns : value of description (a scalar)
Args    : on set, new value (a scalar or undef, optional)

protein_count

Title   : protein_count
Usage   : $obj->protein_count($newval)
Function: set/get the PTT protein count for/from line two
Example : 
Args    : on set, new value (a scalar or undef, optional)
Returns : value of protein_count (a scalar)

2 POD Errors

The following errors were encountered while parsing the POD:

Around line 31:

'=item' outside of any '=over'

Around line 68:

You forgot a '=back' before '=head1'