Bio::DB::SwissProt(3)

NAME
Bio::DB::SwissProt - Database object interface to SwissProt retrieval

SYNOPSIS
    use Bio::DB::SwissProt;

    $sp = Bio::DB::SwissProt->new();

    $seq = $sp->get_Seq_by_id('KPY1_ECOLI'); # SwissProt ID
    # <4-letter-identifier>_<species 5-letter code>
    # or ...
    $seq = $sp->get_Seq_by_acc('P43780'); # SwissProt AC
    # [OPQ]xxxxx

    # In fact in this implementation
    # these methods call the same webscript so you can use
    # then interchangeably

    # choose a different server to query
    $sp = Bio::DB::SwissProt->new('-servertype' => 'expasy',
                                 '-hostlocation' => 'us');

    $seq = $sp->get_Seq_by_id('BOLA_HAEIN'); # SwissProtID

DESCRIPTION
SwissProt is a curated database of proteins managed by the Swiss Bioinformatics Institute. Additional tools for parsing and manipulating swissprot files can be found at ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/swissprot/Swissknife/.

Allows the dynamic retrieval of Sequence objects (Bio::Seq) from the SwissProt database via an Expasy retrieval.

In order to make changes transparent we have host type (currently only expasy) and location (default to Switzerland) separated out. This allows the user to pick the closest Expasy mirror for running their queries.

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AUTHOR - Jason Stajich
Email Jason Stajich <jason@bioperl.org <

Thanks go to Alexandre Gattiker <gattiker@isb-sib.ch> of Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics for helping point us in the direction of the correct expasy scripts and for swissknife references.

Also thanks to Heikki Lehvaslaiho <heikki-at-bioperl-dot-org> for help with adding EBI swall server.

APPENDIX
The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _

  Routines from Bio::DB::RandomAccessI

  get_Seq_by_id
 Title   : get_Seq_by_id
 Usage   : $seq = $db->get_Seq_by_id('ROA1_HUMAN')
 Function: Gets a Bio::Seq object by its name
 Returns : a Bio::Seq object
 Args    : the id (as a string) of a sequence
 Throws  : "id does not exist" exception

  get_Seq_by_acc
 Title   : get_Seq_by_acc
 Usage   : $seq = $db->get_Seq_by_acc('X77802');
 Function: Gets a Bio::Seq object by accession number
 Returns : A Bio::Seq object
 Args    : accession number (as a string)
 Throws  : "acc does not exist" exception

  get_Stream_by_id
  Title   : get_Stream_by_id
  Usage   : $stream = $db->get_Stream_by_id( [$uid1, $uid2] );
  Function: Gets a series of Seq objects by unique identifiers
  Returns : a Bio::SeqIO stream object
  Args    : $ref : a reference to an array of unique identifiers for
                   the desired sequence entries

  get_Stream_by_acc
  Title   : get_Stream_by_acc
  Usage   : $seq = $db->get_Seq_by_acc([$acc1, $acc2]);
  Function: Gets a series of Seq objects by accession numbers
  Returns : a Bio::SeqIO stream object
  Args    : $ref : a reference to an array of accession numbers for
                   the desired sequence entries
  Note    : For GenBank, this just calls the same code for get_Stream_by_id()

  get_Stream_by_batch
  Title   : get_Stream_by_batch
  Usage   : $seq = $db->get_Stream_by_batch($ref);
  Function: Retrieves Seq objects from SwissProt 'en masse', rather than one
            at a time.  This is implemented the same way as get_Stream_by_id,
            but is provided here in keeping with access methods of NCBI
            modules.
  Example :
  Returns : a Bio::SeqIO stream object
  Args    : $ref : either an array reference, a filename, or a filehandle
            from which to get the list of unique ids/accession numbers.

NOTE: deprecated API. Use get_Stream_by_id() instead.

  Implemented Routines from Bio::DB::WebDBSeqI interface

  get_request
 Title   : get_request
 Usage   : my $url = $self->get_request
 Function: returns a HTTP::Request object
 Returns :
 Args    : %qualifiers = a hash of qualifiers (ids, format, etc)

  postprocess_data
 Title   : postprocess_data
 Usage   : $self->postprocess_data ( 'type' => 'string',
                                     'location' => \$datastr);
 Function: process downloaded data before loading into a Bio::SeqIO
 Returns : void
 Args    : hash with two keys - 'type' can be 'string' or 'file'
                              - 'location' either file location or string
                                           reference containing data

  default_format
 Title   : default_format
 Usage   : my $format = $self->default_format
 Function: Returns default sequence format for this module
 Returns : string
 Args    : none

  Bio::DB::SwissProt specific routines

  servertype
 Title   : servertype
 Usage   : my $servertype = $self->servertype
           $self->servertype($servertype);
 Function: Get/Set server type
 Returns : string
 Args    : server type string [optional]

  hostlocation
 Title   : hostlocation
 Usage   : my $location = $self->hostlocation()
          $self->hostlocation($location)
 Function: Set/Get Hostlocation
 Returns : string representing hostlocation
 Args    : string specifying hostlocation [optional]

  location_url
 Title   : location
 Usage   : my $url = $self->location_url()
 Function: Get host url
 Returns : string representing url
 Args    : none

  request_format
 Title   : request_format
 Usage   : my ($req_format, $ioformat) = $self->request_format;
           $self->request_format("genbank");
           $self->request_format("fasta");
 Function: Get/Set sequence format retrieval. The get-form will normally
           not be used outside of this and derived modules.
 Returns : Array of two strings, the first representing the format for
           retrieval, and the second specifying the corresponding SeqIO
           format.
 Args    : $format = sequence format

  idtracker
 Title   : idtracker
 Usage   : my ($newid) = $self->idtracker($oldid);
 Function: Retrieve new ID using old ID.
 Returns : single ID if one is found
 Args    : ID to look for