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NAME

Bio::Map::LinkagePosition - Create a Position for a Marker that will be placed on a Bio::Map::LinkageMap

SYNOPSIS

    use Bio::Map::Position;
    my $position = new Bio::Map::LinkagePosition(-positions => 1,
                                                 -distance => 22.1 );

            # can get listing of positions
    my @positions = $position->each_position;

DESCRIPTION

Position for a Bio::Map::MarkerI compliant object that will be placed on a Bio::Map::LinkageMap. See Bio::Map::MarkerI and Bio::Map::LinkageMap for details

FEEDBACK

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Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to the Bioperl bug tracking system to help us keep track of the bugs and their resolution. Bug reports can be submitted via email or the web:

  bioperl-bugs@bioperl.org
  http://bugzilla.bioperl.org/

AUTHOR - Chad Matsalla

Email bioinformatics1@dieselwurks.com

CONTRIBUTORS

Lincoln Stein, lstein@cshl.org Heikki Lehvaslaiho, heikki@ebi.ac.uk Jason Stajich jason@bioperl.org

APPENDIX

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

new

 Title   : new
 Usage   : my $obj = new Bio::Map::LinkagePosition(-positions => $position,
                                -distance => $distance );
 Function: Builds a new Bio::Map::LinkagePosition object
 Returns : Bio::Map::LinkagePosition
 Args    : -order => the relative order of this marker on a linkage map
           -positions => positions on a map

Bio::Map::PositionI methods

order

 Title   : order
 Usage   : $o_position->order($new_position) _or_
           $o_position->order()
 Function: get/set the order position of this position in a map
 Returns :
 Args    : If $new_position is provided, the current position of this Position
           will be set to $new_position.