Package org.biojava.bio.symbol

Class ChunkedSymbolList

java.lang.Object
org.biojava.utils.AbstractChangeable
org.biojava.bio.symbol.AbstractSymbolList
org.biojava.bio.symbol.ChunkedSymbolList
All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable, SymbolList, Changeable
public class ChunkedSymbolList extends AbstractSymbolList implements Serializable
SymbolList implementation using constant-size chunks. Each chunk provides the same number of symbols (except the last one, which may be shorter). When a request for symbols comes in, firstly the apropreate chunk is located, and then the symbols are extracted. This implementation is used in the IO package to avoid allocating and re-allocating memory when the total length of the symbol list is unknown. It can also be used when chunks are to be lazily fetched from some high-latency stoorage by implementing a single lazy-fetch SymbolList class and populating a ChunkedSymbolList with a complete tile-path of them.
Author:
David Huen, Matthew Pocock, George Waldon
See Also:

  • Constructor Details

  • Method Details

    • finalize

      protected void finalize() throws Throwable
      Overrides:
      finalize in class Object
      Throws:
      Throwable

    • getAlphabet

      public Alphabet getAlphabet()
      Description copied from interface: SymbolList
      The alphabet that this SymbolList is over.

      Every symbol within this SymbolList is a member of this alphabet. alphabet.contains(symbol) == true for each symbol that is within this sequence.

      Specified by:
      getAlphabet in interface SymbolList
      Returns:
      the alphabet

    • length

      public int length()
      Description copied from interface: SymbolList
      The number of symbols in this SymbolList.
      Specified by:
      length in interface SymbolList
      Returns:
      the length

    • symbolAt

      public Symbol symbolAt(int pos)
      Description copied from interface: SymbolList
      Return the symbol at index, counting from 1.
      Specified by:
      symbolAt in interface SymbolList
      Parameters:
      pos - the offset into this SymbolList
      Returns:
      the Symbol at that index

    • subList

      public SymbolList subList(int start, int end)
      Description copied from interface: SymbolList
      Return a new SymbolList for the symbols start to end inclusive.

      The resulting SymbolList will count from 1 to (end-start + 1) inclusive, and refer to the symbols start to end of the original sequence.

      Specified by:
      subList in interface SymbolList
      Overrides:
      subList in class AbstractSymbolList
      Parameters:
      start - the first symbol of the new SymbolList
      end - the last symbol (inclusive) of the new SymbolList

    • edit

      public void edit(Edit edit) throws IllegalAlphabetException, ChangeVetoException
      Description copied from interface: SymbolList
      Apply an edit to the SymbolList as specified by the edit object.

      Description

      All edits can be broken down into a series of operations that change contiguous blocks of the sequence. This represent a one of those operations.

      When applied, this Edit will replace 'length' number of symbols starting a position 'pos' by the SymbolList 'replacement'. This allow to do insertions (length=0), deletions (replacement=SymbolList.EMPTY_LIST) and replacements (length>=1 and replacement.length()>=1).

      The pos and pos+length should always be valid positions on the SymbolList to:

      • be edited (between 0 and symL.length()+1).
      • To append to a sequence, pos=symL.length()+1, pos=0.
      • To insert something at the beginning of the sequence, set pos=1 and length=0.

      Examples

       SymbolList seq = DNATools.createDNA("atcaaaaacgctagc");
 System.out.println(seq.seqString());

 // delete 5 bases from position 4
 Edit ed = new Edit(4, 5, SymbolList.EMPTY_LIST);
 seq.edit(ed);
 System.out.println(seq.seqString());

 // delete one base from the start
 ed = new Edit(1, 1, SymbolList.EMPTY_LIST);
 seq.edit(ed);

 // delete one base from the end
 ed = new Edit(seq.length(), 1, SymbolList.EMPTY_LIST);
 seq.edit(ed);
 System.out.println(seq.seqString());

 // overwrite 2 bases from position 3 with "tt"
 ed = new Edit(3, 2, DNATools.createDNA("tt"));
 seq.edit(ed);
 System.out.println(seq.seqString());

 // add 6 bases to the start
 ed = new Edit(1, 0, DNATools.createDNA("aattgg");
 seq.edit(ed);
 System.out.println(seq.seqString());

 // add 4 bases to the end
 ed = new Edit(seq.length() + 1, 0, DNATools.createDNA("tttt"));
 seq.edit(ed);
 System.out.println(seq.seqString());

 // full edit
 ed = new Edit(3, 2, DNATools.createDNA("aatagaa");
 seq.edit(ed);
 System.out.println(seq.seqString());
      Specified by:
      edit in interface SymbolList
      Overrides:
      edit in class AbstractSymbolList
      Parameters:
      edit - the Edit to perform
      Throws:
      IllegalAlphabetException - if the SymbolList to insert has an incompatible alphabet
      ChangeVetoException - if either the SymboList does not support the edit, or if the change was vetoed