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Seeking help from Perl Monks for counting regular expressions (motifs) and counting lengths between them in a large string

by supriyoch_2008 (Monk)
on Feb 03, 2012 at 02:03 UTC ( [id://951579]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

supriyoch_2008 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Perl Monk,

I had tried to add a do-untilloop just after counting bases to the program given below to find the number of motifs and to find lengths between motifs with a <STDIN>input for motif (with 2- 100 letters).

But I didn’t get correct results for number of motifs and lengths between any two motifs in either cmd or output text file. I initialized several variables but in vain. I am looking forward to perl monks to help me correct the program in counting motifs(regular expressions) and lengths between motifs in a large string of about 299MB. I want get correct results in cmd as well as in text page (length values in vertical positions in text page).

#!usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; if (! @ARGV) { print <<HELP; Usage: > basecount.pl <bases file> HELP exit; } open my $dnaIn, '<', $ARGV[0] or die "Can't open bases file $ARGV[0] +: +$!\n"; my %counts; my @baseList = qw(A T G C); while (defined (my $line = <$dnaIn>)) { chomp $line; ++$counts{$_} for grep {/\S/} split '', $line; } my $bases; my $errors; $bases += $_ for @counts{@baseList}; $errors += $_ for map {$counts{$_}} grep {! /[ATGC]/} keys %counts; print "\n\n Total bases: $bases\n\n"; print join (', ', map {"$_= $counts{$_}"} @baseList), "\n"; print "Errors (N)= $errors\n" if $errors; # In a loop, ask the user for a motif, search for the motif, and repor +t if it # was found. Exit if no motif is entered. my $DNA=join('',@ARGV); my $motif=''; do { print "\n\nEnter a motif to count its number and lengths between motif +s:\n";# $motif = <STDIN>; chomp $motif; # Look for the motif if ( $DNA=~ / $motif/ ) { print "I found the motif!\n\n"; } else { print"I couldn\'t find it.\n\n"; } # Count number of motifs and Count number of nt between two motifs use 5.010; my $string ="@ARGV"; # Remove whitespace $string=~ s/\s//g; my $count= () =$string=~ /$motif/g; print "Number of motifs: $count.\n\n"; say "The inter-motif nt Lengths are:\n"; say length for split/$motif/,$string; my @a=map length,split/$motif/,$string; # Output to a text page my $output="result .txt"; unless (open(RESULT,"> $output")){ print"Cannot open file\"$output\".\n\n"; exit; } print RESULT"\n\n Number of bases: $bases. Errors(N)=$errors.\n Motif: $motif. Number of motifs: $count.\n\n The inter-motif nt Leng +ths are:\n\n @a"; close(RESULT); } until (my $motif =~ /^\s*$/ ); exit;

My input file t.txt has the sequence:

ATGCCCGATATATATCCCNNNATATATGCGCATGCTGCT

Cmd output is as follows:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\user>cd d* C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop>basecount.pl t.txt "my" variable $motif masks earlier declaration in same scope at C:\Doc +uments and Settings\user\Desktop\basecount.pl line 58. Total bases: 36 A= 9, T= 11, G= 6, C= 10 Errors (N)= 3 Enter a motif to count its number and lengths between motifs: AT I couldn't find it. Number of motifs: 0. The inter-motif nt Lengths are: 5 Use of uninitialized value $motif in pattern match (m//) at C:\Documen +ts and Set tings\user\Desktop\basecount.pl line 27, <STDIN> line 1. C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop>

Text Output is as follows:

Number of bases: 36. Errors(N)=3. Motif: AT. Number of motifs: 0. The inter-motif nt Lengths are: 5

Correct results in result.txt file should look something like this:

Number of bases: 39. A=9; T=11; G=6; C=10; Errors(N)=3.

I found the motif.

Motif: AT. Number of motifs: 9.

The inter-motif nt Lengths are:

0

5

0

0

0

6

0

0

4

6

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Re: Seeking help from Perl Monks for counting regular expressions (motifs) and counting lengths between them in a large string
by toolic (Bishop) on Feb 03, 2012 at 02:34 UTC
Re: Seeking help from Perl Monks for counting regular expressions (motifs) and counting lengths between them in a large string
by roboticus (Chancellor) on Feb 03, 2012 at 11:01 UTC

    supriyoch_2008:

    Your question was *almost* interesting enough to try to decipher the code. But not quite. If you had formatted it so it was less painful to look at, you'd probably get some more feedback.

    ...roboticus

    When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

Re: Seeking help from Perl Monks for counting regular expressions (motifs) and counting lengths between them in a large string
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 03, 2012 at 02:12 UTC
Re: Seeking help from Perl Monks for counting regular expressions (motifs) and counting lengths between them in a large string
by JavaFan (Canon) on Feb 03, 2012 at 09:44 UTC
    I'll leave the interaction with the environment to you.
    $_ = "ATGCCCGATATATATCCCNNNATATATGCGCATGCTGCT"; say length $1 while /\G(.*?)AT/g; say length $'; __END__ 0 5 0 0 0 6 0 0 4 6
    Or:
    $_ = "ATGCCCGATATATATCCCNNNATATATGCGCATGCTGCT"; my ($l, $m) = (-2, 0); $m = length $', say -$l - 2 + ($l = length($`)) while /AT/g; say $m; __END__ 0 5 0 0 0 6 0 0 4 6
    For those readers who get trigger happy when they see a use of $' or $`, feel free to use /p instead if you're going to use the above code.

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