class Bio::NCBIDB

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

Public Class Methods

new(entry, tagsize) click to toggle source

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.

# File lib/bio/db.rb, line 256
def initialize(entry, tagsize)
  @tagsize = tagsize
  @orig = entry2hash(entry.strip)     # Hash of the original entry
  @data = {}                          # Hash of the parsed entry
end