[ensembl-dev] Deleting DnaAlignFeatures? [SOLVED]

[Dan Bolser]

I found that calling "$dafa->remove( $daf )" does the job!

The 'remove' DnaAlignFeatureAdaptor method is inherited from
BaseFeatureAdaptor. I should have spotted it in the docs!
http://goo.gl/b8xG2 (thanks to Kevin Howe for pointing that out).


Cheers,
Dan.

On 16 May 2012 18:34, Dan Bolser <dbolser at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I use a DnaAlignFeature adaptor and some DnaAlignFeatures
> retrieved from within it to delete those features from the database?
>
> Here is a snippet of code:
>
> $reg->load_registry_from_db(
> ...
>    my $dafa = $reg->
>      get_adaptor( $species, 'core', 'DnaAlignFeature' );
> ...
>            my $dafs = $dafa->fetch_all_by_hit_name( $hit_name );
>            my @best = sort { ... } @$dafs
>
>            delete_dafs_somhow( @best[1:-1] )
> ...
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dan.