当你读取象GenBank或EMBL这样的序列注释文件时,文件提供的不仅仅是序列本身还有一些更细节的序列信息。如果这个信息拥有位置的话,就可以当作是特征。如果这个信息是很通用的信息比如说是物种名称的话,就可以当作是注释。Biojava 注释(Annotation)对象有些象图(Map)对象,它包括键值映射。
下面就是EMBL文件的开头部分:
ID AY130859 standard; DNA; HUM; 44226 BP. XX AC AY130859; XX SV AY130859.1 XX DT 25-JUL-2002 (Rel. 72, Created) DT 25-JUL-2002 (Rel. 72, Last updated, Version 1) XX DE Homo sapiens cyclin-dependent kinase 7 (CDK7) gene, complete cds. XX KW . XX OS Homo sapiens (human) OC Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; OC Eutheria; Primates; Catarrhini; Hominidae; Homo. XX RN [1] RP 1-44226 RA Rieder M.J., Livingston R.J., Braun A.C., Montoya M.A., Chung M.-W., RA Miyamoto K.E., Nguyen C.P., Nguyen D.A., Poel C.L., Robertson P.D., RA Schackwitz W.S., Sherwood J.K., Witrak L.A., Nickerson D.A.; RT ; RL Submitted (11-JUL-2002) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases. RL Genome Sciences, University of Washington, 1705 NE Pacific, Seattle, WA RL 98195, USA XX CC To cite this work please use: NIEHS-SNPs, Environmental Genome CC Project, NIEHS ES15478, Department of Genome Sciences, Seattle, WA CC (URL: http://egp.gs.washington.edu).
下面的程序读取EMBL文件并且列出所有的注释属性。程序的输出附在后面。
[code lang="java"]
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import org.biojava.bio.*;
import org.biojava.bio.seq.*;
import org.biojava.bio.seq.io.*;
public class ListAnnotations {
public static void main(String[] args){
try {
// 读取EMBL纪录
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(args[0]));
SequenceIterator seqs = SeqIOTools.readEmbl(br);
// 对于每条序列列出它的注释
while(seqs.hasNext()){
Annotation anno = seqs.nextSequence().getAnnotation();
// 打印每个键值对
for(Iterator i = anno.keys().iterator();i.hasNext(); ) {
Object key = i.next();
System.out.println(key+" : "+ anno.getProperty(key));
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex){
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
[/code]
程序输出:
RN : [1] KW : . RL : [Submitted (11-JUL-2002) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases., Genome Sciences, University of Washington, 1705 NE Pacific, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA] embl_accessions : [AY130859] DE : Homo sapiens cyclin-dependent kinase 7 (CDK7) gene, complete cds. SV : AY130859.1 AC : AY130859; FH : Key Location/Qualifiers XX : OC : [Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia;, Eutheria; Primates; Catarrhini; Hominidae; Homo.] RA : [Rieder M.J., Livingston R.J., Braun A.C., Montoya M.A., Chung M.-W.,, Miyamoto K.E., Nguyen C.P., Nguyen D.A., Poel C.L., Robertson P.D.,, Schackwitz W.S., Sherwood J.K., Witrak L.A., Nickerson D.A.;] ID : AY130859 standard; DNA; HUM; 44226 BP. DT : [25-JUL-2002 (Rel. 72, Created), 25-JUL-2002 (Rel. 72, Last updated, Version 1)] CC : [To cite this work please use: NIEHS-SNPs, Environmental Genome, Project, NIEHS ES15478, Department of Genome Sciences, Seattle, WA, (URL: http://egp.gs.washington.edu).] RT : ; OS : Homo sapiens (human) RP : 1-44226