NAME

Genetics::Map

SYNOPSIS

  $map = new Genetics::Map(name => 'Chr12 2 PO',
                           importID => 121,
                           dateCreated => $today,
                           comment => "Stupid 2-marker map.", 
                           Keywords => [ {name => "Test Data", 
                                          dataType => "Boolean", 
                                          value => 1}, 
                                       ], 
                           chromosome => "12",
                           orderingMethod => "Relative",
                           distanceUnits => "cM",
                           Organism => {genusSpecies => "Pongo pongo"},
                           OrderedMapElements => [ {SeqObj => {name => "D12S91", importID => 1},
                                                    distance => 1.3},
                                                   {SeqObj => {name => "EAEx1.1", importID => 265}}
                                                 ],
                          ) ;
  

See the GenPerl Tutorial for more information.

DESCRIPTION

Map objects represent an ordered list of Markers and the distances between them.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

FEEDBACK

Currently, all feedback should be sent directly to the author.

AUTHOR - Steve Mathias

Email: mathias@genomica.com

Phone: (720) 565-4029

Address: Genomica Corporation 1745 38th Street Boulder, CO 80301

DETAILS

The rest of the documentation describes each of the object variables and methods. The names of internal variables and methods are preceded with an underscore (_).

Imported Packages

  Genetics::Object      Superclass
  strict                Just to be anal
  vars                  Global variables

Public methods

  printXML              Write an XML representation of an object

printXML

  Function  : Print an XML representation of the object.
  Argument  : A XML::Writer object that will be used to generate the XML.
  Returns   : String
  Scope     : Public
  Called by : Calls Genetics::Object->printGeneralXML to generate XML elements
              common to all Genetics::Object objects.