Ace::G...gments(3pm)

💅 Ace::Graphics::Glyph::segments — the "discontinuous segments" glyph

okay bestie, this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation for Ace::Graphics::Glyph::segments, and we're gonna get into it 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

See L<Ace::Graphics::Panel> and L<Ace::Graphics::Glyph>.

like, that's the whole synopsis, she's lowkey minimal, iconic behavior honestly 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this glyph draws a sequence feature that consists of multiple discontinuous segments — think the exons on a transcript, or a gapped alignment. the way it shows up on screen is a whole row of filled rectangles connected together by line segments, like little beads on a string fr fr 🧚

and here's the vibe check on what you're allowed to feed it: the features you pass in must be one of these two flavors —

• they respond to the Bio::SequenceFeatureI-style subSeqFeatures() method, or
• they respond to the AcePerl/Das-style segments() or merged_segments() methods

that's it, that's the guest list, no plus-ones 🙈

👑 OPTIONS 👑

on top of all the common options (iykyk), this glyph also recognizes the -stranded argument. here's the tea:

• -stranded — if it's true and the feature is an alignment (meaning: it has the target() method), then the glyph will draw little arrows inside the segment boxes to show off which direction the alignment is going ➡️✨

so cute, so functional, we love a glyph that communicates.

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💀 BUGS 💀

Please report them.

(not me, not the glyph, them — the bugs. go snitch. it's giving responsible user 🫶)

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Ace::Sequence
• Ace::Sequence::Feature
• Ace::Graphics::Panel
• Ace::Graphics::Track
• Ace::Graphics::Glyph::anchored_arrow
• Ace::Graphics::Glyph::arrow
• Ace::Graphics::Glyph::box
• Ace::Graphics::Glyph::primers
• Ace::Graphics::Glyph::segments
• Ace::Graphics::Glyph::toomany
• Ace::Graphics::Glyph::transcript

yes she cited herself in her own SEE ALSO. main character energy, periodt 💅

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

Lincoln Stein <lstein@cshl.org>.

Copyright (c) 2001 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See DISCLAIMER.txt for disclaimers of warranty.

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fr fr, read the license, don't skip it, that's the whole point of it being there 😭

and that's the page!! this was perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-19, and it's giving "old but still serving" — thanks for reading bestie, go draw some exons 💖🦋🌸