Bio::SearchIO::blasttable(3)

NAME
Bio::SearchIO::blasttable - Driver module for SearchIO for parsing NCBI -m 8/9 format

SYNOPSIS
  # do not use this module directly
  use Bio::SearchIO;
  my $parser = Bio::SearchIO->new(-file   => $file,
                                 -format => 'blasttable');

  while( my $result = $parser->next_result ) {
  }

DESCRIPTION
This module will support parsing NCBI -m 8 or -m 9 tabular output and WU-BLAST -mformat 2 or -mformat 3 tabular output.

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rather than to the module maintainer directly. Many experienced and reponsive experts will be able look at the problem and quickly address it. Please include a thorough description of the problem with code and data examples if at all possible.

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

AUTHOR - Jason Stajich
Email jason-at-bioperl-dot-org

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

  new
 Title   : new
 Usage   : my $obj = Bio::SearchIO::blasttable->new();
 Function: Builds a new Bio::SearchIO::blasttable object
 Returns : an instance of Bio::SearchIO::blasttable
 Args    :

  next_result
 Title   : next_result
 Usage   : my $result = $parser->next_result
 Function: Parse the next result from the data stream
 Returns : L<Bio::Search::Result::ResultI>
 Args    : none

  start_element
 Title   : start_element
 Usage   : $eventgenerator->start_element
 Function: Handles a start element event
 Returns : none
 Args    : hashref with at least 2 keys 'Data' and 'Name'

  end_element
 Title   : start_element
 Usage   : $eventgenerator->end_element
 Function: Handles an end element event
 Returns : none
 Args    : hashref with at least 2 keys 'Data' and 'Name'

  element
 Title   : element
 Usage   : $eventhandler->element({'Name' => $name, 'Data' => $str});
 Function: Convience method that calls start_element, characters, end_element
 Returns : none
 Args    : Hash ref with the keys 'Name' and 'Data'

  characters
 Title   : characters
 Usage   : $eventgenerator->characters($str)
 Function: Send a character events
 Returns : none
 Args    : string

  _mode
 Title   : _mode
 Usage   : $obj->_mode($newval)
 Function:
 Example :
 Returns : value of _mode
 Args    : newvalue (optional)

  within_element
 Title   : within_element
 Usage   : if( $eventgenerator->within_element($element) ) {}
 Function: Test if we are within a particular element
           This is different than 'in' because within can be tested
           for a whole block.
 Returns : boolean
 Args    : string element name

  in_element
 Title   : in_element
 Usage   : if( $eventgenerator->in_element($element) ) {}
 Function: Test if we are in a particular element
           This is different than 'in' because within can be tested
           for a whole block.
 Returns : boolean
 Args    : string element name

  start_document
 Title   : start_document
 Usage   : $eventgenerator->start_document
 Function: Handles a start document event
 Returns : none
 Args    : none

  end_document
 Title   : end_document
 Usage   : $eventgenerator->end_document
 Function: Handles an end document event
 Returns : Bio::Search::Result::ResultI object
 Args    : none

  result_count
 Title   : result_count
 Usage   : my $count = $searchio->result_count
 Function: Returns the number of results we have processed
 Returns : integer
 Args    : none

  program_name
 Title   : program_name
 Usage   : $obj->program_name($newval)
 Function: Get/Set the program name
 Returns : value of program_name (a scalar)
 Args    : on set, new value (a scalar or undef, optional)

  _will_handle
 Title   : _will_handle
 Usage   : Private method. For internal use only.
              if( $self->_will_handle($type) ) { ... }
 Function: Provides an optimized way to check whether or not an element of a
           given type is to be handled.
 Returns : Reference to EventHandler object if the element type is to be handled.
           undef if the element type is not to be handled.
 Args    : string containing type of element.

Optimizations:

1.  Using the cached pointer to the EventHandler to minimize repeated lookups.

2.  Caching the will_handle status for each type that is encountered so that it only need be checked by calling handler->will_handle($type) once.

This does not lead to a major savings by itself (only 5-10%). In combination with other optimizations, or for large parse jobs, the savings good be significant.

To test against the unoptimized version, remove the parentheses from around the third term in the ternary " ? : " operator and add two calls to $self->_eventHandler().