class Bio::NCBIDB

Stores a NCBI style (GenBank, KEGG etc.) entry.

Public Class Methods

Source

    # File lib/bio/db.rb
257 def initialize(entry, tagsize)
258   @tagsize = tagsize
259   @orig = entry2hash(entry.strip)     # Hash of the original entry
260   @data = {}                          # Hash of the parsed entry
261 end

The entire entry is passed as a String. The length of the tag field is passed as an Integer. Parses the entry roughly by the entry2hash method and returns a database object.