[Bioperl-l] Strange BioPerl/Perl problem!

Brian Osborne b_i_osborne@hotmail.com
Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:15:58 -0500


Lynn,

Could you provide the errors and some code? There may be some people who
could offer insight into your problem without this information, but I'm not
one of them....

Brian O.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Stevens" <lynn_m_stevens@hotmail.com>
To: <bioperl-l@bioperl.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 2:30 PM
Subject: [Bioperl-l] Strange BioPerl/Perl problem!


> Hi All,
>
> I am new to Perl and BioPerl and I have encountered a strange problem
> with a script that I have written.
>
> The script uses the System commmand to access a large DNA contig (2
> million or so bases long).  I place this contig into a BioPerl seq
> object and then manipulate it in various ways (using Seq->subseq) and
> seq->length).  In the end I print out a much smaller subseq of the
> original contig.  My script performs this function on 1000s of contigs
> in a while loop ... or alternatively, I have a slightly different
> script that just performs the function above once (and then I just
> invoke it 1000's of times by using a shell script).
>
> Either way, the script runs perfectly for the 1000's of sequences,
> giving me the correct output (which is generally a 500 bp sequence for
> each call).
>
> However, if I start running the script more than once (several
> processes going at the same time), I get lots of exceptions....of
> various sorts.  They are different everytime.  This happens even when
> I am running similar scripts with different names.  The only thing
> that seems to make logical sense to me is that the vaiables in the
> BioPerl modules are getting confused. However, I can understand why
> this should occur.
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated!
>
> Lynn
>
>
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