Class: Ensembl::Variation::Allele

Inherits:

DBConnection

• Object
• ActiveRecord::Base
• DBRegistry::Base
• DBConnection
• Ensembl::Variation::Allele

Defined in:

lib/bio-ensembl/variation/activerecord.rb

Overview

The Allele class describes a single allele of a variation. In addition to the nucleotide(s) (or absence of) that representing the allele frequency and population information may be present.

This class uses ActiveRecord to access data in the Ensembl database. See the general documentation of the Ensembl module for more information on what this means and what methods are available.

Examples:

allele = Allele.find(1)
puts allele.to_yaml

Method Summary

Methods inherited from DBConnection

connect, ensemblgenomes_connect

Methods inherited from DBRegistry::Base

generic_connect, get_info, get_name_from_db