NAME

Bio::AlignIO::largemultifasta - Largemultifasta MSA Sequence input/output stream

SYNOPSIS

Do not use this module directly. Use it via the Bio::AlignIO class.

DESCRIPTION

This object can transform Bio::SimpleAlign objects to and from largemultifasta flat file databases. This is for the fasta sequence format NOT FastA analysis program. To process the pairwise alignments from a FastA (FastX, FastN, FastP, tFastA, etc) use the Bio::SearchIO module.

Reimplementation of Bio::AlignIO::fasta modules so that creates temporary files instead of keeping the whole sequences in memory.

FEEDBACK

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to the Bioperl bug tracking system to help us keep track the bugs and their resolution. Bug reports can be submitted via the web:

http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/

AUTHORS - Albert Vilella, Heikki Lehvaslaiho

Email: avilella-at-gmail-dot-com, heikki-at-bioperl-dot-org

APPENDIX

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

next_seq

Title   : next_seq
Usage   : $seq = $stream->next_seq()
Function: returns the next sequence in the stream while taking care
          of the length
Returns : Bio::Seq object
Args    : NONE

next_aln

 Title   : next_aln
 Usage   : $aln = $stream->next_aln()
 Function: returns the next alignment in the stream.
 Returns : L<Bio::Align::AlignI> object - returns 0 on end of file
	    or on error
 Args    : NONE

write_aln

Title   : write_aln
Usage   : $stream->write_aln(@aln)
Function: writes the $aln object into the stream in largemultifasta format
Returns : 1 for success and 0 for error
Args    : L<Bio::Align::AlignI> object