NAME

Genetics::DNASample


SYNOPSIS

  $sample = new Genetics::DNASample(name => 'SM20.1-3',
                                    importID => 272,
                                    dateCreated => $today,
                                    comment => "Third attempt to get DNA from this Sample", 
                                    Keywords => [ {name => "Test Data", 
                                                   dataType => "Boolean", 
                                                   value => 1}, 
                                                ], 
                                    dateCollected => "2001-01-18",
                                    amount => 3.26,
                                    amountUnits => "mg",
                                    concentration => 1.1,
                                    concUnits => "mg/ml",
                                    Subject => {name => 'EAPed20.1',
                                                importID => 12},
                                    Genotypes => [ {name => '1-D12S91',
                                                    importID => 13},
                                                   {name => '1-EAEx1.1',
                                                    importID => 14},
                                                 ],
                                   ) ;

See the GenPerl Tutorial for more information.


DESCRIPTION

DNASample objects represent the laboratory samples of extracted DNA.


LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA


FEEDBACK

Currently, all feedback should be sent directly to the author.


AUTHOR - Steve Mathias

Email: mathias@genomica.com

Phone: (720) 565-4029

Address: Genomica Corporation 1745 38th Street Boulder, CO 80301


DETAILS

The rest of the documentation describes each of the object variables and methods. The names of internal variables and methods are preceded with an underscore (_).


Imported Packages

 Genetics::Object       Superclass
 strict                 Just to be anal
 vars                   Global variables


Public methods

  printXML              Write an XML representation of the object

printXML

  Function  : Write an XML representation of the object according to GnomML.dtd.
  Argument  : An XML::Writer object that will be used to generate the XML.
  Returns   : String
  Scope     : Public
  Comments  : Calls Genetics::Object->printGeneralXML to generate XML elements
              common to all Genetics::Object objects.