[Bioperl-l] question about in-between overlapping exact location

[Hilmar Lapp]

This sounds like a bug to me - the location type should be taken into  
account, shouldn't it?

Would you mind submitting this (and a patch if you have one :) to  
bugzilla?

	-hilmar

On May 6, 2009, at 12:17 AM, George Hartzell wrote:

>
> Jason Stajich writes:
>> George -
>> I don't think the location type is taken into account in the overlap
>> code testing code. Would you expect 2..3 and 3..5 to overlap?
>>
>> -jason
>> On May 5, 2009, at 2:42 PM, George Hartzell wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I was surprised to see that:
>>>
>>> $ins = Bio::Location::Simple->new(-start => 2,
>>>                                   -end => 3,
>>> 				    -location_type => 'IN-BETWEEN',
>>>                                  );
>>> $start = Bio::Location::Simple->new(-start => 3,
>>>                                     -end => 5);
>>>
>>> print "Wow!\n" if $start->overlaps($ins);
>>>
>>> To my mind they would only overlap if the insertion were 3^4 or 4^5.
>>>
>>> Is my mental model of in-between's overlapping exact's wrong, or  
>>> could
>>> the code be improved (I'm happy to make a change, but...)?
>
> Yep, I'd expect them to overlap.
>
>  1 2 3 4 5
>    A T
>      T A A
>
> I'm trying to ask a question like the following.  Given a location
> that describes an e.g. start codon (3..5) and a description of a
> mutation, does the mutation cause a change in the ATG.  Substitutions
> are described with exact locations (change bases 3..4 from AT to TA)
> and insertions are modeled as in-between locations (insert G at 3^4).
>
>  1 2 3 4 5 6
>      A T G
>        T G C C
>
> Given 3..5, I can just ask if 3..4 overlaps it (yes), if 3 overlaps it
> (yes) and if 3^4 overlaps it (yes).  For things to work out this
> easily, 2^3 shouldn't overlap (an insertion there wouldn't change the
> codon).
>
> I can get the in-between to work by using RangeI->contains, but then I
> end up with 1..4 not "causing a change".
>
> I've ended up with a two part if() that checks the location_type and
> uses ->overlap() or ->contains() so that it works out.
>
> g.
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