# $Id: SeqIO.pm 16090 2009-09-15 21:57:56Z cjfields $ # # BioPerl module for Bio::SeqIO # # Please direct questions and support issues to # # Cared for by Ewan Birney # and Lincoln Stein # # Copyright Ewan Birney # # You may distribute this module under the same terms as perl itself # # _history # October 18, 1999 Largely rewritten by Lincoln Stein # POD documentation - main docs before the code =head1 NAME Bio::SeqIO - Handler for SeqIO Formats =head1 SYNOPSIS use Bio::SeqIO; $in = Bio::SeqIO->new(-file => "inputfilename" , -format => 'Fasta'); $out = Bio::SeqIO->new(-file => ">outputfilename" , -format => 'EMBL'); while ( my $seq = $in->next_seq() ) { $out->write_seq($seq); } # Now, to actually get at the sequence object, use the standard Bio::Seq # methods (look at Bio::Seq if you don't know what they are) use Bio::SeqIO; $in = Bio::SeqIO->new(-file => "inputfilename" , -format => 'genbank'); while ( my $seq = $in->next_seq() ) { print "Sequence ",$seq->id, " first 10 bases ", $seq->subseq(1,10), "\n"; } # The SeqIO system does have a filehandle binding. Most people find this # a little confusing, but it does mean you can write the world's # smallest reformatter use Bio::SeqIO; $in = Bio::SeqIO->newFh(-file => "inputfilename" , -format => 'Fasta'); $out = Bio::SeqIO->newFh(-format => 'EMBL'); # World's shortest Fasta<->EMBL format converter: print $out $_ while <$in>; =head1 DESCRIPTION Bio::SeqIO is a handler module for the formats in the SeqIO set (eg, Bio::SeqIO::fasta). It is the officially sanctioned way of getting at the format objects, which most people should use. The Bio::SeqIO system can be thought of like biological file handles. They are attached to filehandles with smart formatting rules (eg, genbank format, or EMBL format, or binary trace file format) and can either read or write sequence objects (Bio::Seq objects, or more correctly, Bio::SeqI implementing objects, of which Bio::Seq is one such object). If you want to know what to do with a Bio::Seq object, read L. The idea is that you request a stream object for a particular format. All the stream objects have a notion of an internal file that is read from or written to. A particular SeqIO object instance is configured for either input or output. A specific example of a stream object is the Bio::SeqIO::fasta object. Each stream object has functions $stream->next_seq(); and $stream->write_seq($seq); As an added bonus, you can recover a filehandle that is tied to the SeqIO object, allowing you to use the standard EE and print operations to read and write sequence objects: use Bio::SeqIO; $stream = Bio::SeqIO->newFh(-format => 'Fasta', -fh => \*ARGV); # read from standard input or the input filenames while ( $seq = <$stream> ) { # do something with $seq } and print $stream $seq; # when stream is in output mode This makes the simplest ever reformatter #!/usr/bin/perl $format1 = shift; $format2 = shift || die "Usage: reformat format1 format2 < input > output"; use Bio::SeqIO; $in = Bio::SeqIO->newFh(-format => $format1, -fh => \*ARGV ); $out = Bio::SeqIO->newFh(-format => $format2 ); # Note: you might want to quote -format to keep older # perl's from complaining. print $out $_ while <$in>; =head1 CONSTRUCTORS =head2 Bio::SeqIO-Enew() $seqIO = Bio::SeqIO->new(-file => 'filename', -format=>$format); $seqIO = Bio::SeqIO->new(-fh => \*FILEHANDLE, -format=>$format); $seqIO = Bio::SeqIO->new(-format => $format); The new() class method constructs a new Bio::SeqIO object. The returned object can be used to retrieve or print Seq objects. new() accepts the following parameters: =over 5 =item -file A file path to be opened for reading or writing. The usual Perl conventions apply: 'file' # open file for reading '>file' # open file for writing '>>file' # open file for appending '+new(-fh => \*STDIN); Note that you must pass filehandles as references to globs. If neither a filehandle nor a filename is specified, then the module will read from the @ARGV array or STDIN, using the familiar EE semantics. A string filehandle is handy if you want to modify the output in the memory, before printing it out. The following program reads in EMBL formatted entries from a file and prints them out in fasta format with some HTML tags: use Bio::SeqIO; use IO::String; my $in = Bio::SeqIO->new(-file => "emblfile", -format => 'EMBL'); while ( my $seq = $in->next_seq() ) { # the output handle is reset for every file my $stringio = IO::String->new($string); my $out = Bio::SeqIO->new(-fh => $stringio, -format => 'fasta'); # output goes into $string $out->write_seq($seq); # modify $string $string =~ s|(>)(\w+)|$1$2|g; # print into STDOUT print $string; } =item -format Specify the format of the file. Supported formats include fasta, genbank, embl, swiss (SwissProt), Entrez Gene and tracefile formats such as abi (ABI) and scf. There are many more, for a complete listing see the SeqIO HOWTO (L). If no format is specified and a filename is given then the module will attempt to deduce the format from the filename suffix. If there is no suffix that Bioperl understands then it will attempt to guess the format based on file content. If this is unsuccessful then SeqIO will throw a fatal error. The format name is case-insensitive: 'FASTA', 'Fasta' and 'fasta' are all valid. Currently, the tracefile formats (except for SCF) require installation of the external Staden "io_lib" package, as well as the Bio::SeqIO::staden::read package available from the bioperl-ext repository. =item -alphabet Sets the alphabet ('dna', 'rna', or 'protein'). When the alphabet is set then Bioperl will not attempt to guess what the alphabet is. This may be important because Bioperl does not always guess correctly. =item -flush By default, all files (or filehandles) opened for writing sequences will be flushed after each write_seq() (making the file immediately usable). If you do not need this facility and would like to marginally improve the efficiency of writing multiple sequences to the same file (or filehandle), pass the -flush option '0' or any other value that evaluates as defined but false: my $gb = Bio::SeqIO->new(-file => " "gb"); my $fa = Bio::SeqIO->new(-file => ">gball.fa", -format => "fasta", -flush => 0); # go as fast as we can! while($seq = $gb->next_seq) { $fa->write_seq($seq) } =back =head2 Bio::SeqIO-EnewFh() $fh = Bio::SeqIO->newFh(-fh => \*FILEHANDLE, -format=>$format); $fh = Bio::SeqIO->newFh(-format => $format); # etc. This constructor behaves like new(), but returns a tied filehandle rather than a Bio::SeqIO object. You can read sequences from this object using the familiar EE operator, and write to it using print(). The usual array and $_ semantics work. For example, you can read all sequence objects into an array like this: @sequences = <$fh>; Other operations, such as read(), sysread(), write(), close(), and printf() are not supported. =head1 OBJECT METHODS See below for more detailed summaries. The main methods are: =head2 $sequence = $seqIO-Enext_seq() Fetch the next sequence from the stream, or nothing if no more. =head2 $seqIO-Ewrite_seq($sequence [,$another_sequence,...]) Write the specified sequence(s) to the stream. =head2 TIEHANDLE(), READLINE(), PRINT() These provide the tie interface. See L for more details. =head1 FEEDBACK =head2 Mailing Lists User feedback is an integral part of the evolution of this and other Bioperl modules. Send your comments and suggestions preferably to one of the Bioperl mailing lists. Your participation is much appreciated. bioperl-l@bioperl.org - General discussion http://bioperl.org/wiki/Mailing_lists - About the mailing lists =head2 Support Please direct usage questions or support issues to the mailing list: bioperl-l@bioperl.org rather than to the module maintainer directly. Many experienced and responsive 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. =head2 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/ =head1 AUTHOR - Ewan Birney, Lincoln Stein Email birney@ebi.ac.uk lstein@cshl.org =head1 APPENDIX The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _ =cut #' Let the code begin... package Bio::SeqIO; use strict; use Bio::Factory::FTLocationFactory; use Bio::Seq::SeqBuilder; use Bio::Tools::GuessSeqFormat; use Symbol; use base qw(Bio::Root::Root Bio::Root::IO Bio::Factory::SequenceStreamI); my %valid_alphabet_cache; =head2 new Title : new Usage : $stream = Bio::SeqIO->new(-file => $filename, -format => 'Format') Function: Returns a new sequence stream Returns : A Bio::SeqIO stream initialised with the appropriate format Args : Named parameters: -file => $filename -fh => filehandle to attach to -format => format Additional arguments may be used to set factories and builders involved in the sequence object creation. None of these must be provided, they all have reasonable defaults. -seqfactory the Bio::Factory::SequenceFactoryI object -locfactory the Bio::Factory::LocationFactoryI object -objbuilder the Bio::Factory::ObjectBuilderI object See L =cut my $entry = 0; sub new { my ($caller,@args) = @_; my $class = ref($caller) || $caller; # or do we want to call SUPER on an object if $caller is an # object? if( $class =~ /Bio::SeqIO::(\S+)/ ) { my ($self) = $class->SUPER::new(@args); $self->_initialize(@args); return $self; } else { my %param = @args; @param{ map { lc $_ } keys %param } = values %param; # lowercase keys if (!defined($param{-file}) && !defined($param{-fh})) { $class->throw("file argument provided, but with an undefined value") if exists($param{'-file'}); $class->throw("fh argument provided, but with an undefined value") if (exists($param{'-fh'})); } my $format = $param{'-format'} || $class->_guess_format( $param{-file} || $ARGV[0] ); if( ! $format ) { if ($param{-file}) { $format = Bio::Tools::GuessSeqFormat->new(-file => $param{-file}||$ARGV[0] )->guess; } elsif ($param{-fh}) { $format = Bio::Tools::GuessSeqFormat->new(-fh => $param{-fh}||$ARGV[0] )->guess; } } $format = "\L$format"; # normalize capitalization to lower case $class->throw("Unknown format given or could not determine it [$format]") unless $format; if ($format =~ /-/) { ($format, my $variant) = split('-', $format, 2); push @args, (-variant => $variant); } return unless( $class->_load_format_module($format) ); return "Bio::SeqIO::$format"->new(@args); } } =head2 newFh Title : newFh Usage : $fh = Bio::SeqIO->newFh(-file=>$filename,-format=>'Format') Function: does a new() followed by an fh() Example : $fh = Bio::SeqIO->newFh(-file=>$filename,-format=>'Format') $sequence = <$fh>; # read a sequence object print $fh $sequence; # write a sequence object Returns : filehandle tied to the Bio::SeqIO::Fh class Args : See L =cut sub newFh { my $class = shift; return unless my $self = $class->new(@_); return $self->fh; } =head2 fh Title : fh Usage : $obj->fh Function: Example : $fh = $obj->fh; # make a tied filehandle $sequence = <$fh>; # read a sequence object print $fh $sequence; # write a sequence object Returns : filehandle tied to Bio::SeqIO class Args : none =cut sub fh { my $self = shift; my $class = ref($self) || $self; my $s = Symbol::gensym; tie $$s,$class,$self; return $s; } # _initialize is chained for all SeqIO classes sub _initialize { my($self, @args) = @_; # flush is initialized by the Root::IO init my ($seqfact,$locfact,$objbuilder, $alphabet) = $self->_rearrange([qw(SEQFACTORY LOCFACTORY OBJBUILDER ALPHABET) ], @args); $locfact = Bio::Factory::FTLocationFactory->new(-verbose => $self->verbose) if ! $locfact; $objbuilder = Bio::Seq::SeqBuilder->new(-verbose => $self->verbose) unless $objbuilder; $self->sequence_builder($objbuilder); $self->location_factory($locfact); # note that this should come last because it propagates the sequence # factory to the sequence builder $seqfact && $self->sequence_factory($seqfact); #bug 2160 $alphabet && $self->alphabet($alphabet); # initialize the IO part $self->_initialize_io(@args); } =head2 next_seq Title : next_seq Usage : $seq = stream->next_seq Function: Reads the next sequence object from the stream and returns it. Certain driver modules may encounter entries in the stream that are either misformatted or that use syntax not yet understood by the driver. If such an incident is recoverable, e.g., by dismissing a feature of a feature table or some other non-mandatory part of an entry, the driver will issue a warning. In the case of a non-recoverable situation an exception will be thrown. Do not assume that you can resume parsing the same stream after catching the exception. Note that you can always turn recoverable errors into exceptions by calling $stream->verbose(2). Returns : a Bio::Seq sequence object, or nothing if no more sequences are available Args : none See L, L, L =cut sub next_seq { my ($self, $seq) = @_; $self->throw("Sorry, you cannot read from a generic Bio::SeqIO object."); } =head2 write_seq Title : write_seq Usage : $stream->write_seq($seq) Function: writes the $seq object into the stream Returns : 1 for success and 0 for error Args : Bio::Seq object =cut sub write_seq { my ($self, $seq) = @_; $self->throw("Sorry, you cannot write to a generic Bio::SeqIO object."); } =head2 alphabet Title : alphabet Usage : $self->alphabet($newval) Function: Set/get the molecule type for the Seq objects to be created. Example : $seqio->alphabet('protein') Returns : value of alphabet: 'dna', 'rna', or 'protein' Args : newvalue (optional) Throws : Exception if the argument is not one of 'dna', 'rna', or 'protein' =cut sub alphabet { my ($self, $value) = @_; if ( defined $value) { $value = lc $value; unless ($valid_alphabet_cache{$value}) { # instead of hard-coding the allowed values once more, we check by # creating a dummy sequence object eval { require Bio::PrimarySeq; my $seq = Bio::PrimarySeq->new('-verbose' => $self->verbose, '-alphabet' => $value); }; if ($@) { $self->throw("Invalid alphabet: $value\n. See Bio::PrimarySeq for allowed values."); } $valid_alphabet_cache{$value} = 1; } $self->{'alphabet'} = $value; } return $self->{'alphabet'}; } =head2 _load_format_module Title : _load_format_module Usage : *INTERNAL SeqIO stuff* Function: Loads up (like use) a module at run time on demand Example : Returns : Args : =cut sub _load_format_module { my ($self, $format) = @_; my $module = "Bio::SeqIO::" . $format; my $ok; eval { $ok = $self->_load_module($module); }; if ( $@ ) { print STDERR <_filehandle($newval) Function: This method is deprecated. Call _fh() instead. Example : Returns : value of _filehandle Args : newvalue (optional) =cut sub _filehandle { my ($self,@args) = @_; return $self->_fh(@args); } =head2 _guess_format Title : _guess_format Usage : $obj->_guess_format($filename) Function: guess format based on file suffix Example : Returns : guessed format of filename (lower case) Args : Notes : formats that _filehandle() will guess include fasta, genbank, scf, pir, embl, raw, gcg, ace, bsml, swissprot, fastq and phd/phred =cut sub _guess_format { my $class = shift; return unless $_ = shift; return 'abi' if /\.ab[i1]$/i; return 'ace' if /\.ace$/i; return 'alf' if /\.alf$/i; return 'bsml' if /\.(bsm|bsml)$/i; return 'ctf' if /\.ctf$/i; return 'embl' if /\.(embl|ebl|emb|dat)$/i; return 'entrezgene' if /\.asn$/i; return 'exp' if /\.exp$/i; return 'fasta' if /\.(fasta|fast|fas|seq|fa|fsa|nt|aa|fna|faa)$/i; return 'fastq' if /\.fastq$/i; return 'gcg' if /\.gcg$/i; return 'genbank' if /\.(gb|gbank|genbank|gbk|gbs)$/i; return 'phd' if /\.(phd|phred)$/i; return 'pir' if /\.pir$/i; return 'pln' if /\.pln$/i; return 'raw' if /\.(txt)$/i; return 'scf' if /\.scf$/i; return 'swiss' if /\.(swiss|sp)$/i; # from Strider 1.4 Release Notes: The file name extensions used by # Strider 1.4 are ".xdna", ".xdgn", ".xrna" and ".xprt" for DNA, # DNA Degenerate, RNA and Protein Sequence Files, respectively return 'strider' if /\.(xdna|xdgn|xrna|xprt)$/i; return 'ztr' if /\.ztr$/i; } sub DESTROY { my $self = shift; $self->close(); } sub TIEHANDLE { my ($class,$val) = @_; return bless {'seqio' => $val}, $class; } sub READLINE { my $self = shift; return $self->{'seqio'}->next_seq() unless wantarray; my (@list, $obj); push @list, $obj while $obj = $self->{'seqio'}->next_seq(); return @list; } sub PRINT { my $self = shift; $self->{'seqio'}->write_seq(@_); } =head2 sequence_factory Title : sequence_factory Usage : $seqio->sequence_factory($seqfactory) Function: Get/Set the Bio::Factory::SequenceFactoryI Returns : Bio::Factory::SequenceFactoryI Args : [optional] Bio::Factory::SequenceFactoryI =cut sub sequence_factory{ my ($self,$obj) = @_; if( defined $obj ) { if( ! ref($obj) || ! $obj->isa('Bio::Factory::SequenceFactoryI') ) { $self->throw("Must provide a valid Bio::Factory::SequenceFactoryI object to ".ref($self)."::sequence_factory()"); } $self->{'_seqio_seqfactory'} = $obj; my $builder = $self->sequence_builder(); if($builder && $builder->can('sequence_factory') && (! $builder->sequence_factory())) { $builder->sequence_factory($obj); } } $self->{'_seqio_seqfactory'}; } =head2 object_factory Title : object_factory Usage : $obj->object_factory($newval) Function: This is an alias to sequence_factory with a more generic name. Example : Returns : value of object_factory (a scalar) Args : on set, new value (a scalar or undef, optional) =cut sub object_factory{ return shift->sequence_factory(@_); } =head2 sequence_builder Title : sequence_builder Usage : $seqio->sequence_builder($seqfactory) Function: Get/Set the Bio::Factory::ObjectBuilderI used to build sequence objects. If you do not set the sequence object builder yourself, it will in fact be an instance of L, and you may use all methods documented there to configure it. Returns : a Bio::Factory::ObjectBuilderI compliant object Args : [optional] a Bio::Factory::ObjectBuilderI compliant object =cut sub sequence_builder{ my ($self,$obj) = @_; if( defined $obj ) { if( ! ref($obj) || ! $obj->isa('Bio::Factory::ObjectBuilderI') ) { $self->throw("Must provide a valid Bio::Factory::ObjectBuilderI object to ".ref($self)."::sequence_builder()"); } $self->{'_object_builder'} = $obj; } $self->{'_object_builder'}; } =head2 location_factory Title : location_factory Usage : $seqio->location_factory($locfactory) Function: Get/Set the Bio::Factory::LocationFactoryI object to be used for location string parsing Returns : a Bio::Factory::LocationFactoryI implementing object Args : [optional] on set, a Bio::Factory::LocationFactoryI implementing object. =cut sub location_factory{ my ($self,$obj) = @_; if( defined $obj ) { if( ! ref($obj) || ! $obj->isa('Bio::Factory::LocationFactoryI') ) { $self->throw("Must provide a valid Bio::Factory::LocationFactoryI" . " object to ".ref($self)."->location_factory()"); } $self->{'_seqio_locfactory'} = $obj; } $self->{'_seqio_locfactory'}; } 1;