[ensembl-dev] Wrongly documented gene_adaptor method ?

[PATERSON Trevor]

According to the Perl documentation, you should be able to get a list of genes for a given display label, using:

public    Listref    Bio::EnsEMBL::DBSQL::GeneAdaptor::fetch_all_by_display_label ( )

However,  this method is wrongly documented in the online perl docs, and does not return an array - but a single gene object


my @genes = @{$geneAdaptor->fetch_by_display_label("TBC1D3B")};
DEBUGGER ERROR MESSAGE : Not an ARRAY reference

When you look at the real code in Release 67 API, rather than the www perldocs, the method actually returns a single gene, preferring one that is on a reference slice.

I am looking for a way of getting alternative gene models on Patch exceptions: and this method would have been promising. e.g for the gene ENSG00000224226<http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Summary?db=core;g=ENSG00000224226;r=HG75_PATCH:34442621-34976908> Location Chromosome 17: 34,493,061-34,503,984<http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Location/View?db=core;g=ENSG00000224226;r=17:34493061-34503984> how do I get its equivalent on the patch-fix ENSG00000260069<http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Summary?db=core;g=ENSG00000260069;r=HG75_PATCH:34442621-34976908> Location Chromosome HG75_PATCH: 34,493,132-34,503,984<http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Location/View?db=core;g=ENSG00000260069;r=HG75_PATCH:34493132-34503984>.


obviously I can dig into the API and call the appropriate sql code myself:

my $constraint = "x.display_label = '". $gene->display_xref()->display_id()."' AND g.is_current = 1";
my @same_labelled_genes = @{ $gene_adaptor->generic_fetch($constraint) };


but is there an alternative (simple) method to get either 'same_labelled' genes  or ideally 'equivalent-exception' genes for a given gene?

the method
public    Listref    Bio::EnsEMBL::Gene::get_all_alt_alleles ( )

of course does something similar using the alt_alleles table , but only for alternative haplotypes not patches.

Thanks

Trevor


Trevor Paterson PhD
trevor.paterson at roslin.ed.ac.uk<mailto:trevor.paterson at roslin.ed.ac.uk>
Bioinformatics
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