Bio::SeqFeature::Gene::Transcript(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		    Bio::SeqFeature::Gene::Transcript(3pm)

NAME

       Bio::SeqFeature::Gene::Transcript - A feature representing a transcript

SYNOPSIS

	 # See documentation of methods.

DESCRIPTION

       A feature representing a transcript.

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AUTHOR - Hilmar Lapp
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APPENDIX

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

   promoters
	Title	: promoters()
	Usage	: @proms = $transcript->promoters();
	Function: Get the promoter features/sites of this transcript.

		  Note that OO-modeling of regulatory elements is not stable yet.
		  This means that this method might change or even disappear in a
		  future release. Be aware of this if you use it.

	Returns : An array of Bio::SeqFeatureI implementing objects representing the
		  promoter regions or sites.
	Args	:

   add_promoter
	Title	: add_promoter()
	Usage	: $transcript->add_promoter($feature);
	Function: Add a promoter feature/site to this transcript.

		  Note that OO-modeling of regulatory elements is not stable yet.
		  This means that this method might change or even disappear in a
		  future release. Be aware of this if you use it.

	Returns :
	Args	: A Bio::SeqFeatureI implementing object.

   flush_promoters
	Title	: flush_promoters()
	Usage	: $transcript->flush_promoters();
	Function: Remove all promoter features/sites from this transcript.

		  Note that OO-modeling of regulatory elements is not stable yet.
		  This means that this method might change or even disappear in a
		  future release. Be aware of this if you use it.

	Returns : the removed features as a list
	Args	: none

   exons
	Title	: exons()
	Usage	: @exons = $gene->exons();
		  ($inital_exon) = $gene->exons('Initial');
	Function: Get all exon features or all exons of specified type of this
		  transcript.

		  Exon type is treated as a case-insensitive regular expression and
		  is optional. For consistency, use only the following types:
		  initial, internal, terminal.

	Returns : An array of Bio::SeqFeature::Gene::ExonI implementing objects.
	Args	: An optional string specifying the primary_tag of the feature.

   exons_ordered
	Title	: exons_ordered
	Usage	: @exons = $gene->exons_ordered();
		  @exons = $gene->exons_ordered("Internal");
	Function: Get an ordered list of all exon features or all exons of specified
		  type of this transcript.

		  Exon type is treated as a case-insensitive regular expression and
		  is optional. For consistency, use only the following types:

	Returns : An array of Bio::SeqFeature::Gene::ExonI implementing objects.
	Args	: An optional string specifying the primary_tag of the feature.

   add_exon
	Title	: add_exon()
	Usage	: $transcript->add_exon($exon,'initial');
	Function: Add a exon feature to this transcript.

		  The second argument denotes the type of exon. Mixing exons with and
		  without a type is likely to cause trouble in exons(). Either
		  leave out the type for all exons or for none.

		  Presently, the following types are known: initial, internal,
		  terminal, utr, utr5prime, and utr3prime (all case-insensitive).
		  UTR should better be added through utrs()/add_utr().

		  If you wish to use other or additional types, you will almost
		  certainly have to call exon_type_sortorder() in order to replace
		  the default sort order, or mrna(), cds(), protein(), and exons()
		  may yield unexpected results.

	Returns :
	Args	: A Bio::SeqFeature::Gene::ExonI implementing object.
		  A string indicating the type of the exon (optional).

   flush_exons
	Title	: flush_exons()
	Usage	: $transcript->flush_exons();
		  $transcript->flush_exons('terminal');
	Function: Remove all or a certain type of exon features from this transcript.

		  See add_exon() for documentation about types.

		  Calling without a type will not flush UTRs. Call flush_utrs() for
		  this purpose.
	Returns : the deleted features as a list
	Args	: A string indicating the type of the exon (optional).

   introns
	Title	: introns()
	Usage	: @introns = $gene->introns();
	Function: Get all intron features this gene structure.

		  Note that this implementation generates these features
		  on-the-fly, that is, it simply treats all regions between
		  exons as introns, assuming that exons do not overlap. A
		  consequence is that a consistent correspondence between the
		  elements in the returned array and the array that exons()
		  returns will exist only if the exons are properly sorted
		  within their types (forward for plus- strand and reverse
		  for minus-strand transcripts). To ensure correctness the
		  elements in the array returned will always be sorted.

	Returns : An array of Bio::SeqFeature::Gene::Intron objects representing
		  the intron regions.
	Args	:

   poly_A_site
	Title	: poly_A_site()
	Usage	: $polyAsite = $transcript->poly_A_site();
	Function: Get/set the poly-adenylation feature/site of this transcript.
	Returns : A Bio::SeqFeatureI implementing object representing the
		  poly-adenylation region.
	Args	: A Bio::SeqFeatureI implementing object on set, or FALSE to flush
		  a previously set object.

   utrs
	Title	: utrs()
	Usage	: @utr_sites = $transcript->utrs('utr3prime');
		  @utr_sites = $transcript->utrs('utr5prime');
		  @utr_sites = $transcript->utrs();
	Function: Get the features representing untranslated regions (UTR) of this
		  transcript.

		  You may provide an argument specifying the type of UTR. Currently
		  the following types are recognized: utr5prime utr3prime for UTR on the
		  5' and 3' end of the CDS, respectively.

	Returns : An array of Bio::SeqFeature::Gene::UTR objects
		  representing the UTR regions or sites.
	Args	: Optionally, either utr3prime, or utr5prime for the the type of UTR
		  feature.

   add_utr
	Title	: add_utr()
	Usage	: $transcript->add_utr($utrobj, 'utr3prime');
		  $transcript->add_utr($utrobj);
	Function: Add a UTR feature/site to this transcript.

		  The second parameter is optional and denotes the type of the UTR
		  feature. Presently recognized types include 'utr5prime' and 'utr3prime'
		  for UTR on the 5' and 3' end of a gene, respectively.

		  Calling this method is the same as calling
		  add_exon($utrobj, 'utr'.$type). In this sense a UTR object is a
		  special exon object, which is transcribed, not spliced out, but
		  not translated.

		  Note that the object supplied should return FALSE for is_coding().
		  Otherwise cds() and friends will become confused.

	Returns :
	Args	: A Bio::SeqFeature::Gene::UTR implementing object.

   flush_utrs
	Title	: flush_utrs()
	Usage	: $transcript->flush_utrs();
		  $transcript->flush_utrs('utr3prime');
	Function: Remove all or a specific type of UTR features/sites from this
		  transcript.

		  Cf. add_utr() for documentation about recognized types.
	Returns : a list of the removed features
	Args	: Optionally a string denoting the type of UTR feature.

   sub_SeqFeature
	Title	: sub_SeqFeature
	Usage	: @feats = $transcript->sub_SeqFeature();
	Function: Returns an array of all subfeatures.

		  This method is defined in Bio::SeqFeatureI. We override this here
		  to include the exon etc features.

	Returns : An array Bio::SeqFeatureI implementing objects.
	Args	: none

   flush_sub_SeqFeature
	Title	: flush_sub_SeqFeature
	Usage	: $transcript->flush_sub_SeqFeature();
		  $transcript->flush_sub_SeqFeature(1);
	Function: Removes all subfeatures.

		  This method is overridden from Bio::SeqFeature::Generic to flush
		  all additional subfeatures like exons, promoters, etc., which is
		  almost certainly not what you want. To remove only features added
		  through $transcript->add_sub_SeqFeature($feature) pass any
		  argument evaluating to TRUE.

	Example :
	Returns : none
	Args	: Optionally, an argument evaluating to TRUE will suppress flushing
		  of all transcript-specific subfeatures (exons etc.).

   cds
	Title	: cds
	Usage	: $seq = $transcript->cds();
	Function: Returns the CDS (coding sequence) as defined by the exons
		  of this transcript and the attached sequence.

		  If no sequence is attached this method will return false.

		  Note that the implementation provided here returns a
		  concatenation of all coding exons, thereby assuming that
		  exons do not overlap.

		  Note also that you cannot set the CDS via this method. Set
		  a single CDS feature as a single exon, or derive your own
		  class if you want to store a predicted CDS.

	Example :
	Returns : A Bio::PrimarySeqI implementing object.
	Args	:

   protein
	Title	: protein()
	Usage	: $protein = $transcript->protein();
	Function: Get the protein encoded by the transcript as a sequence object.

		  The implementation provided here simply calls translate() on the
		  object returned by cds().

	Returns : A Bio::PrimarySeqI implementing object.
	Args	:

   mrna
	Title	: mrna()
	Usage	: $mrna = $transcript->mrna();
	Function: Get the mRNA of the transcript as a sequence object.

		  The difference to cds() is that the sequence object returned by
		  this methods will also include UTR and the poly-adenylation site,
		  but not promoter sequence (TBD).

		  HL: do we really need this method?

	Returns : A Bio::PrimarySeqI implementing object.
	Args	:

   features
	Title	: features
	Usage	: my @features=$transcript->features;
	Function: returns all the features associated with this transcript
	Returns : a list of SeqFeatureI implementing objects
	Args	: none

   features_ordered
	Title	: features_ordered
	Usage	: my @features=$transcript->features_ordered;
	Function: returns all the features associated with this transcript,
		  in order by feature start, according to strand
	Returns : a list of SeqFeatureI implementing objects
	Args	: none

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