[Bioperl-l] Bio:Graphics for drawing secondary structure

[Scott Cain]

Hi Matthew,

I don't have any code examples, but people have used GBrowse for
protein secondary structure, which uses Bio::Graphics underneath the
hood.

If you want to put more than one glyph and/or more than one color in a
track, it is fairly easy.  You just need to provide a callback for
each option when you create the track, like this:

  $panel->add_track($features_array_ref,
                    -glyph       => sub { #code to set the glyph
according the attributes of the feature  },
                    -bgcolor     => sub { #code to set the color },
                    -fgcolor     => 'black',
                 ...etc...
  );

For more information, see the biographics howto:

  http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/HOWTO:Graphics

Scott



On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Matthew Betts <betts at embl.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Has any one tried to draw secondary structure with Bio::Graphics? i.e. two
> different types of glyph with different colours on the same track.
>
> Could use a hash reference to get the different glyph types (would be nice
> if there was a cylinder glyph and a thick arrow glyph), or heterogeneous
> segments to get the different colours, but I can't see how to do both at
> the same time.
>
> Any example code or suggestions on how I could implement it would be
> great.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matthew
>
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