Bio::Community::IO::Driver::unifrac - Driver to read and write files in the (Fast)Unifrac format
my $in = Bio::Community::IO->new( -file => 'unifrac_commmunities.txt', -format => 'unifrac' ); # See Bio::Community::IO for more information
This Bio::Community::IO::Driver::unifrac driver reads and writes Unifrac environment files and FastUnifrac sample ID mapping files, whose format is described at http://bmf2.colorado.edu/unifrac/help.psp#env_file and http://bmf2.colorado.edu/fastunifrac/help.psp#sample_id_mapping_file. In this tab-delimited format, the first column is a sequence ID, the second is the name of a community, and the optional third column contains the number of observations of this sequence in the community. Multiple communities can be written in a Unifrac formatted-file and spaces are not supported in community name or member description. Example:
Sequence.1 Sample.1 1 Sequence.1 Sample.2 2 Sequence.2 Sample.1 15 Sequence.3 Sample.1 2 Sequence.4 Sample.2 8 Sequence.5 Sample.1 4 Sequence.6 Sample.3 1 Sequence.6 Sample.2 1
For each Bio::Community::Member $member generated from a Unifrac file, $member->desc() contains the content of the first field, i.e. the first column. Since the Unifrac format does not specify a member ID, one is automatically generated and can be retrieved using $member->id().
Note that member counts (the third column) is optional. Example:
Sequence.1 Sample.1 Sequence.1 Sample.2 Sequence.2 Sample.1 Sequence.3 Sample.1 Sequence.4 Sample.2 Sequence.5 Sample.1 Sequence.6 Sample.3 Sequence.6 Sample.2
In this case the data is to be interpreted as presence/absence data. When reading a Unifrac file without counts, all members are given a count of 1. Conversely, when writing a Unifrac file, if all members have a count of 1, then the third column is not written. Also, when writing Unifrac files, any spaces in community member name or member description is replaced by a dot.
See Bio::Community::IO.
Florent Angly florent.angly@gmail.com
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Copyright 2011-2014 by Florent Angly <florent.angly@gmail.com>
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.1 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
To install Bio::Community, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Bio::Community
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Bio::Community
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.