Bio::AnalysisResultI(3)

NAME
Bio::AnalysisResultI - Interface for analysis result objects

SYNOPSIS
Bio::AnalysisResultI defines an interface that must be implemented by a subclass. So you cannot create Bio::AnalysisResultI objects, only objects that inherit from Bio::AnalysisResultI.

DESCRIPTION
The AnalysisResultI module provides an interface for modules encapsulating the result of an analysis that was carried out with a query sequence and an optional subject dataset.

The notion of an analysis represented by this base class is that of a unary or binary operator, taking either one query or a query and a subject and producing a result. The query is e.g. a sequence, and a subject is either a sequence, too, or a database of sequences.

This interface defines methods to access analysis result data and does not impose any contraints on how the analysis result data is acquired.

Note that this module does not provide support for running an analysis. Rather, it is positioned in the subsequent parsing step (concerned with turning raw results into BioPerl objects).

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AUTHOR - Steve Chervitz, Hilmar Lapp
Email sac@bioperl.org Email hlapp@gmx.net (author of Bio::Tools::AnalysisResult on which this module is based)

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2001 Steve Chervitz. All Rights Reserved.

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

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

  analysis_query
 Usage     : $query_obj = $result->analysis_query();
 Purpose   : Get a Bio::PrimarySeqI-compatible object representing the entity
             on which the analysis was performed. Lacks sequence information.
 Argument  : n/a
 Returns   : A Bio::PrimarySeqI-compatible object without sequence information.
             The sequence will have display_id, description, moltype, and length data.

  analysis_subject
 Usage     : $obj = $result->analyis_subject();
 Purpose   : Get the subject of the analysis against which it was
             performed. For similarity searches it will probably be a database,
             and for sequence feature predictions (exons, promoters, etc) it
             may be a collection of models or homologous sequences that were
             used, or undefined.
 Returns   : An object of a type the depends on the implementation
             May also return undef for analyses that don\'t involve subjects.
 Argument  : n/a
 Comments  : Implementation of this method is optional.
             AnalysisResultI provides a default behavior of returning undef.

  analysis_subject_version
 Usage     : $vers = $result->analyis_subject_version();
 Purpose   : Get the version string of the subject of the analysis.
 Returns   : String or undef for analyses that don\'t involve subjects.
 Argument  : n/a
 Comments  : Implementation of this method is optional.
             AnalysisResultI provides a default behavior of returning undef.

  analysis_date
 Usage     : $date = $result->analysis_date();
 Purpose   : Get the date on which the analysis was performed.
 Returns   : String
 Argument  : n/a

  analysis_method
 Usage     : $meth = $result->analysis_method();
 Purpose   : Get the name of the sequence analysis method that was used
             to produce this result (BLASTP, FASTA, etc.). May also be the
             actual name of a program.
 Returns   : String
 Argument  : n/a

  analysis_method_version
 Usage     : $vers = $result->analysis_method_version();
 Purpose   : Get the version string of the analysis program.
           : (e.g., 1.4.9MP, 2.0a19MP-WashU).
 Returns   : String
 Argument  : n/a

  next_feature
 Title   : next_feature
 Usage   : $seqfeature = $obj->next_feature();
 Function: Returns the next feature available in the analysis result, or
           undef if there are no more features.
 Example :
 Returns : A Bio::SeqFeatureI implementing object, or undef if there are no
           more features.
 Args    : none