parse_primersearch.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
#parse_primersearch.pl
#reformat EMBOSS primersearch output into columnar Galaxy interval format 
#usage  perl parse_primersearch.pl <input primersearch file> <tabular output file>
#Copyright 2012 John McCallum 
#New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research
#This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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open (IN, "<$ARGV[0]");
open (OUT, ">$ARGV[1]");





while (<IN>) {
         /^Primer name (\S+)/  && ($name = $1);  # get primer set name
         # Modified to cope with unnamed sequence input 28/7/05
        /Sequence: (\S+)/ && print OUT  $name,"\t",$1;
        /Sequence:(\s{4,})/ && print OUT $name,"\t","unnamed_seq";
        /hits forward strand at (\d+) with (\d) mismatches/ && ($start = $1) &&  print OUT  "\t",$2,"\t",$start,;
        /Amplimer length: (\S+)/ && ($amp_length = $1) &&  print OUT "\t",$start + $amp_length,"\t",$1,"\n";
        }

close( IN );
close( OUT );