Bio::PopGen::Utilities(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			       Bio::PopGen::Utilities(3pm)

NAME

       Bio::PopGen::Utilities - Utilities for working with PopGen data and objects

SYNOPSIS

	 use Bio::PopGen::Utilities;
	 use Bio::AlignIO;

	 my $in = Bio::AlignIO->new(-file   => 't/data/t7.aln',
				   -format => 'clustalw');
	 my $aln = $in->next_aln;
	 # get a population, each sequence is an individual and
	 # for the default case, every site which is not monomorphic
	 # is a 'marker'.  Each individual will have a 'genotype' for the
	 # site which will be the specific base in the alignment at that
	 # site
	 my $pop = Bio::PopGen::Utilities->aln_to_population(-alignment => $aln);

	 # get the synonymous sites from the alignemt only as the 'genotypes'
	 # for the population
	 my $synpop = Bio::PopGen::Utilities->aln_to_population(-site_model => 'cod',
								-alignment  => $aln);

DESCRIPTION

       This object provides some convience function to turn sequence alignments into usable objects for the Population genetics modules
       (Bio::PopGen).

FEEDBACK

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AUTHOR - Jason Stajich
       Email jason-at-bioperl-dot-org

APPENDIX

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

   aln_to_population
	Title	: aln_to_population
	Usage	: my $pop = Bio::PopGen::Utilities->aln_to_population($aln);
	Function: Turn and alignment into a set of L<Bio::PopGen::Individual>
		  objects grouped in a L<Bio::PopGen::Population> object

		  Sites are treated as 'Markers' in the Bioperl PopGen object
		  model in the sense that a site is a unique location for which
		  an individual will have a genotype (a set of alleles).
		  In this implementation we are assuming that each individual
		  has a single entry in the alignment file.

		  Specify a site model as one of those listed
		  'all' -- every base in the alignment is considered a site
		  'cod' -- codons

		  The option -site_model
		       for All sites	      : 'all'
			   Codon sites	      : 'cod' or 'codon'

		 To see all sites, including those which are fixed in the population
		 add -include_monomorphic => 1
		 to the arguments
	Returns :
	Args	: -include_monomorphic => 1   to specify all sites,
					      even those which are monomorphic
					      in the population
					 (useful for HKA test mostly)
				   [default is false]
		  -phase	  => specify a phase for the data, this is only
				     used if the site_mode is codon
				   [default is 0]
		  -site_model	  => one-of 'all', 'codon'
				    to specify a site model for the data extraction
				    from the alignment
				   [default is all]
		  -alignment	  => provide a L<Bio::SimpleAlign> object [required]

perl v5.14.2							    2012-03-02					       Bio::PopGen::Utilities(3pm)