NAME

PJ::Genome - Module for convenient access to genome statistics, such as chromosome lengths.

SYNOPSIS

use PJ::Genome qw( get_gz get_effgz get_chrsz );

&get_gz(genome_name);	# genome size.
&get_effgz(genome_name);	# effective genome size.
&get_chrsz(genome_name);	# chromosome lengths in a reference to hash table.

DESCRIPTION

Many bioinformatics functions need information about a genome, such as the genome size,
chromosome lengths. This module contains these information for a few model species and
provide PERL interfaces for easy access.

EXPORT

None.

SEE ALSO

MyBioinfo::Common

AUTHOR

Li Shen, <li.shen@mssm.edu>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2012 by Li Shen

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.6.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.