Bio::EnsEMBL::Utils::Slice Class Reference

Public Member Functions
public Ref	split_Slices ()

Detailed Description

Synopsis

use Bio::EnsEMBL::Utils::Slice qw(split_Slices);
 
# ...
 
# get all chromosomes in the database
my $slices = $slice_adaptor->fetch_all('chromosome');
 
# split the chromosomes into equal chunks of size less than 1MB
# with an overlap of 1kb
$slices = split_Slices( $slices, 1e6, 1e3 );

Definition at line 21 of file Slice.pm.

Member Function Documentation

split_Slices()

public Ref Bio::EnsEMBL::Utils::Slice::split_Slices

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  Arg [1]    : ref to list of slices
  Arg [2]    : int maxlength of sub slices
  Arg [3]    : int overlap length (optional)
  Example    :

my $sub_slices = split_Slices($slices,$maxlen,$overlap)

  Description: splits a slice into smaller slices 
  Returntype : ref to list of slices
  Exceptions : maxlen <1 or overlap < 0

Code:

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• ensembl/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Utils/Slice.pm