NAME

Bio::Grep::Filter::FilterRemoveDuplicates - Example Filter

DESCRIPTION

Bio::Grep::Filter::FilterRemoveDuplicates is an example filter that allows only unique sequence ids in search results. It is useful if you are only interested in which genes the query was found. Deletes the result if the id already occured. Ignores suffixes of the form ".xx", where xx are digit characters (this normally represents alternative splice forms).

$filter = Bio::Grep::Filter::FilterRemoveDuplicates->new($res)

This function constructs a FilterRemoveDuplicates object. Takes as parameter a Bio::Grep::Container::SearchResult object

INTERNAL METHODS

Only Bio::Grep::Backend::BackendI should need to call them.

$filter->filter

$filter->reset

SEE ALSO

Bio::Grep::Filter::FilterI Bio::Grep::Backend::BackendI

AUTHOR

Markus Riester, <mriester@gmx.de>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Based on Weigel::Search v0.13

Copyright (C) 2005-2006 by Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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