hi all there,

i have been tryin through bioperl to get the DNA sequence from EMBL(a database) through a set of codes. though i get with most of the DNA sequence there are some accesion ids which produce the entire genomic DNA sequence fromt he list. do any one have an odea of how to do with this.

the code that extracts the DNA sequence is:


sub parsing {

my ($uni_acc,$embl_xref,$line,@lines,@embl_xref);

while(<>)
{
  $uni_rec = $_;
  @lines = split/\n/,$uni_rec;

foreach $line (@lines)
{
 if ($line =~ /^AC\s+(\w+)/)
  {
    $uni_acc = $1;
   
  }
     elsif ($line =~ /^DR\s+EMBL;\s+(\w+)/)
     
           {
              $embl_xref = $1;
              #print"$uni_acc\t $embl_xref\n";
              push (@embl_xref, $embl_xref);
              #print "@embl_xref";
              next;
               }
 }
 
 
}
return (@embl_xref);
 
}

sub getdata {
   
my @embl_xref = &parsing;


       $srs -> get_set_chunk_size(20);# to get the records in cnvenient numbers.

     $srs->get_records_with_accessions #to get recordds corresponding to accesion numbers.
     
      (
         -db => 'embl',
         -AccNumbers => \@embl_xref,
       -file => 'embl_data.dbi'
        );

return ($srs);

}

thanks,





I am not sure how you expect meaningful help with this question unless a person is very familiar with the data you are working with. Having said that, I will take a guess, maybe you need to refactor your regexp:

elsif ($line =~ /^DR\s+EMBL;\s+(\w+)/)

looks like (\w+) is too greedy and capturing more data then you think it should.

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