On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 20:16, heyi xiao <xiaohey...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there any convenient way to check the documentation (and source code) for > individual method of an installed module? For instance, bioperl has a module > called Bio::Seq. I may simply check the documentation of this whole module > using: > perldoc Bio::Seq Everything Jim Gibson said is spot on, but I will also mention that for the Bio::Perl modules specifically, there exists a website called the BioPerl Deobfuscator at <http://bioperl.org/cgi-bin/deob_interface.cgi>. Here's the entry for add_SeqFeature: <http://bioperl.org/cgi-bin/deob_detail.cgi?method=Bio::Seq::add_SeqFeature>. The Bio::Perl modules are *very* heavily object-oriented, and it can sometimes be hard to tell where a particular method is implemented, due to all the inheritance that's going on behind the scenes. The Deobfuscator helps with that. (Note that it still doesn't give you the code, but it will give you the method signature and return values.) chrs, john. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
