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-#
-# script to calculate the gene density features on a database
-# should work on any species database
-#
-
-#
-# It will only run on databases with genes ...
-# boundary condition: on average there should be 2 genes per block
-#
-
-# this is a modified version of gene_density.calc.pl written for vega by st3 - is a bit slow since when looking for each type of gene it actually retrieves all genes but then only records those of the correct type.
-
-
-use strict;
-
-use lib '../../modules/','../../../bioperl-live';
-use Data::Dumper;
-
-use Bio::EnsEMBL::DBSQL::DBAdaptor;
-use Bio::EnsEMBL::DensityType;
-use Bio::EnsEMBL::DensityFeature;
-use Getopt::Long;
-
-my ( $host, $user, $pass, $port, $dbname  );
-
-my ( $block_count, $genome_size, $block_size );
-
-GetOptions( "host=s", \$host,
-	    "user=s", \$user,
-	    "pass=s", \$pass,
-	    "port=i", \$port,
-	    "dbname=s", \$dbname
-	  );
-
-my $db = new Bio::EnsEMBL::DBSQL::DBAdaptor(-host => $host,
-					    -user => $user,
-					    -port => $port,
-					    -pass => $pass,
-					    -dbname => $dbname);
-
-my $sth = $db->prepare( "select count(*) from gene" );
-$sth->execute();
-
-my ( $gene_count )  = $sth->fetchrow_array();
-
-if( ! $gene_count ) {
-  print STDERR "No gene density for $dbname.\n";
-  exit();
-} else {
-  $block_count = $gene_count >> 1;
-}
-
-#
-# Could be database without seq_regions
-#  Then have to try and attach core db
-#
-$sth = $db->prepare( "select count(*)  from seq_region" );
-$sth->execute();
-my ( $seq_region_count ) = $sth->fetchrow_array();
-if( ! $seq_region_count ) {
-  #
-  # for the time being only do core dbs
-  # no dbs with no seq regions
-  #
-  print STDERR "No gene density for $dbname, no seq_regions.\n";
-  exit();
-
-  if( ($dbname =~ /_estgene_/ ) || ( $dbname =~ /_vega_/ )) {
-    my $dna_db_name = $dbname;
-    $dna_db_name =~ s/(_estgene_|_vega_)/_core_/;
-    my $dna_db =  new Bio::EnsEMBL::DBSQL::DBAdaptor
-      (-host => $host,
-       -user => $user,
-       -port => $port,
-       -pass => $pass,
-       -dbname => $dna_db_name );
-    print STDERR "Attaching $dna_db_name to $dbname.\n";
-    $db->dnadb( $dna_db );
-  } else {
-    print STDERR "No gene density for $dbname, no seq_regions.\n";
-    exit();
-  }
-}
-
-#
-# Get the adaptors needed;
-#
-
-my $dfa = $db->get_DensityFeatureAdaptor();
-my $dta = $db->get_DensityTypeAdaptor();
-my $aa  = $db->get_AnalysisAdaptor();
-my $slice_adaptor = $db->get_SliceAdaptor();
-
-#
-# block size estimation
-#
-
-my $top_slices = $slice_adaptor->fetch_all('toplevel');
-for my $slice ( @$top_slices ) {
-  $genome_size += $slice->length();
-}
-
-$block_size = int( $genome_size / $block_count );
-
-#which types of geens are we interested in?
-my $analysis_names = {
-		      'pseudoGeneDensity'=>[
-					    'Processed_pseudogene',
-					    'Pseudogene',
-					    'Unprocessed_pseudogene'],
-		      'knownGeneDensity'=>'Known',
-		      'novelCDSDensity'=>'Novel_CDS',
-		      'novelTransDensity'=>'Novel_Transcript',
-		      'putativeTransDensity'=>'Putative',
-		      'predictedTransDensity'=>'Predicted_Gene',
-		      'predictedIgPseudoDensity'=>'Ig_Pseudogene_Segment',
-		      'IgSegDensity'=>'Ig_Segment'
-		     };
-my $total_successes;
-my $known_successess;
-my $novel_cds_successes;
-my $novel_trans_successes;
-my $putative_successes;
-my $pseudo_successes;
-my $predicted_trans_successes;
-my $predictedIGPseudo_successes;
-my $IgSegment_successes;
-my $failures;
-
-# Now the actual feature calculation loop, looking for each gene type in turn
-
-foreach my $anal_name (keys %$analysis_names) {
-
-    my %gene_names;
-
-#create analysis object for each gene type
-    my $analysis = new Bio::EnsEMBL::Analysis (-program     => "vega_gene_density_calc.pl",
-					    -database    => "ensembl",
-					    -gff_source  => "vega_gene_density_calc.pl",
-					    -gff_feature => "density",
-					    -logic_name  => $anal_name);
-    $aa->store( $analysis );
-
-    print "FETCHING DATA ON GENES OF TYPE $analysis_names->{$anal_name}:\n"; # I know this doesn't display correctly for pseudogenes, tough!
-
-    $analysis = $aa->fetch_by_logic_name($anal_name);
-
-  #
-  # Create new density type for each gene type
-    my $dt = Bio::EnsEMBL::DensityType->new(-analysis   => $analysis,
-					  -block_size => $block_size,
-					  -value_type => 'sum');
-    $dta->store($dt);
-
-    my ( $current_start, $current_end );
-    
-    foreach my $slice (@$top_slices){
-	$current_start = 1;
-	my @density_features=();
-	print "Gene densities for ".$slice->seq_region_name().
-	" with block size $block_size\n";
-	
-	while($current_start <= $slice->end()) {
-	    $current_end = $current_start+$block_size-1;
-	    if( $current_end > $slice->end() ) {
-		$current_end = $slice->end();
-	    }
-	    
-	    my $sub_slice = $slice->sub_Slice( $current_start, $current_end );
-	    my $count =0;
-	    
-      #
-      # retrieve info for all genes on the subslice, but count only those of a particular type
-      #
-
-	    foreach my $gene (@{$sub_slice->get_all_Genes()}){
-#only count each gene once for each gene type loop
-		if (exists $gene_names{$gene->stable_id}) {
-		    next;
-		}
-		else {
-		    $gene_names{$gene->stable_id} = 1;
-		}
-#pseudogenes first...
-		my $classification = $gene->type;
-		if ($anal_name eq 'pseudoGeneDensity'){
-		    my $check = 0;
-		    foreach my $pseudo_type (@{$analysis_names->{$anal_name}}) {
-			if (($classification eq $pseudo_type) & ($check<1)) {
-			    $count++;
-			    $check = 1;
-			    $total_successes++;
-			    $pseudo_successes++;
-			}
-			else {
-			    $failures++; 
-			}
-		    }
-		}
-#then the other types 
-		elsif ($classification eq $analysis_names->{$anal_name}) {
-		    if ($anal_name eq 'knownGeneDensity') {
-			$count++;
-			$total_successes++;
-			$known_successess++;
-		    } elsif ($anal_name eq 'novelCDSDensity') {
-			$count++;
-			$total_successes++;
-			$novel_cds_successes++;
-		    } elsif ($anal_name eq 'novelTransDensity') {
-			$count++;
-			$total_successes++;
-			$novel_trans_successes++;
-		    } elsif ($anal_name eq 'putativeTransDensity') {
-			$count++;
-			$total_successes++;
-			$putative_successes++;
-		    } elsif ($anal_name eq  'predictedTransDensity') {
-			$count++;
-			$total_successes++;
-			$predicted_trans_successes++;
-		    } elsif ($anal_name eq 'predictedIgPseudoDensity') {
-			$count++;
-			$total_successes++;
-			$predictedIGPseudo_successes++;
-		    } elsif ($anal_name eq 'IgSegDensity') {
-			$count++;
-			$total_successes++;
-			$IgSegment_successes++;
-		    }
-		    else {
-			$failures++;
-		    }
-		}
-	    }
-	    
-	    push @density_features, Bio::EnsEMBL::DensityFeature->new
-	    (-seq_region    => $slice,
-	     -start         => $current_start,
-	     -end           => $current_end,
-	     -density_type  => $dt,
-	     -density_value => $count);
-	    
-	    $current_start = $current_end + 1;
-	    #      print STDERR ".";
-	}
-	$dfa->store(@density_features);
-	print "Created ", scalar @density_features, " gene density features.\n";
-	#    print_features(\@density_features);
-    }
-}
-print "number of genes in db =  $gene_count\n";
-print "total number of succesfull identifications = $total_successes\n";
-print "number of known genes = $known_successess\n";
-print "number of novel cds = $novel_cds_successes\n";
-print "number of novel trans = $novel_trans_successes\n";
-print "number of putative trans = $putative_successes\n";
-print "number of pseudogenes = $pseudo_successes\n";
-print "number of predicted transgenes = $predicted_trans_successes\n";
-print "number of IG Pseudogene Segments = $predictedIGPseudo_successes\n";
-print "number of IG Segments = 	$IgSegment_successes\n";
-# this gives totally the wrong number of failures and is not to be relied upon at all!
-#if ($failures > 0) {
-#    print "warning, you have some unmatched genes: a lot less than $failures\n";
-#}
-
-#
-# helper to draw an ascii representation of the density features
-#
-sub print_features {
-  my $features = shift;
-
-  return if(!@$features);
-
-  my $sum = 0;
-  my $length = 0;
-#  my $type = $features->[0]->{'density_type'}->value_type();
-
-  print("\n");
-  my $max=0;
-  foreach my $f (@$features) {
-    if($f->density_value() > $max){
-      $max=$f->density_value();
-    }
-  }
-  if( !$max ) { $max = 1 };
-
-  foreach my $f (@$features) {
-    my $i=1;
-    for(; $i< ($f->density_value()/$max)*40; $i++){
-      print "*";
-    }
-    for(my $j=$i;$j<40;$j++){
-      print " ";
-    }
-    print "  ".$f->density_value()."\t".$f->start()."\n";
-  }
-}
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