Bio::G...script(3pm)

💖 Bio::G...script — the "transcript" glyph 💖

okay bestie, so this page is from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and it's about one specific little glyph in the Bio::Graphics universe. pull up a chair, we're doing biology-adjacent graphics and it's gonna be cute 🌸

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✨ NAME ✨

Bio::Graphics::Glyph::transcript — literally The "transcript" glyph. that's the whole name. iconic, concise, no notes 💅

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

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

like, that's it. that's the synopsis. go read those two if you want the full picture, this page is just the one glyph 🦋

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So this glyph is the one you reach for when you wanna draw transcripts. and ngl, under the hood it's basically a "segments" glyph — except the bits that connect everything together are hats. yes, hats. it's giving "dressed up for the occasion" 👑

and because a transcript has a direction (it's not just vibes, it has orientation), there's an arrow attached to the end of the glyph pointing which way it goes. main character energy, honestly.

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

first up, the standard options — every Glyph has these, they're universal. if you want the full deep-dive explanation, Bio::Graphics::Glyph is right there, go check it. but here's the rundown for this glyph:

• -fgcolor — the foreground color. default: black 🖤
• -outlinecolor — a synonym for -fgcolor. same thing, different name, we love options.
• -bgcolor — the background color. default: turquoise 💎 (slay)
• -fillcolor — a synonym for -bgcolor. yep, another alias, they're twins.
• -linewidth — the line width. default: 1
• -height — height of glyph. default: 10
• -font — the glyph font. default: gdSmallFont
• -connector — the connector type. default: 0 (false)
• -connector_color — the connector color. default: black
• -label — whether to draw a label. default: 0 (false)
• -description — whether to draw a description. default: 0 (false)
• -hilite — the highlight color. default: undef (no color)

ok wait, the original page literally says "the alignment glyph recognizes the following glyph-specific options" — which, bestie, is a lil typo situation in the source. we're keeping it exactly as written because facts are facts, but just so you know: these are the options for this glyph 💀

and in addition, there's one glyph-specific option:

• -arrow_length — the length of the directional arrow. default: 8 🏹

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🫶 BUGS 🫶

Please report them. that's the whole vibe. if you find a bug, don't suffer in silence, tell someone — you deserve better and so does the code 😭

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

the whole friend group, in order:

• Bio::Graphics::Panel
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::arrow
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::cds
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::crossbox
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::diamond
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::dna
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::dot
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::ellipse
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::extending_arrow
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::generic
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::graded_segments
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::heterogeneous_segments
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::line
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::pinsertion
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::primers
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::rndrect
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::segments
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::ruler_arrow
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::toomany
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::transcript
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::transcript2
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::translation
• Bio::Graphics::Glyph::triangle
• Bio::DB::GFF
• Bio::SeqI
• Bio::SeqFeatureI
• Bio::Das
• GD

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Lincoln Stein <lstein@cshl.org> — absolute legend, credit where credit is due 🫡

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.

like, free software besties. go wild, but read DISCLAIMER.txt first, no cap 🎀

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and that's the page! this one's from perl v5.30.0, dated 2019-11-25, and honestly it still holds up. love that for us 💖✨ mwah, go draw some transcripts 🧚