Nelson Ray wrote: > > Just as a little background, I am working on a BioInformatics program that > runs on large (about 300 meg) text files. I am using a filehandle to open > and load it into an array. Then I use the join command to read the array > into a scalar variable in order to be in a workable form for my > computationally intensive program. The problem, however, is that the > machine I am working with only has 256 megs of RAM. I have split the files > into 50-60 meg chunks, but my program still uses all the available physical > memory. I am quite new to perl and do not know any other methods of working > with the data other than to make it a scalar variable, which requires > loading it into memory. Does anyone have any solution to my memory woes? I > would greatly appreciate your help. Thanks a lot.
Have you had a look at the bioperl web page (http://bioperl.org/)? Or O'Reilly's page on Bioinformatics (http://bio.oreilly.com/)? John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
