TFBS::PatternGen(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

TFBS::PatternGen — bestie, it's the base class for pattern generators 🧬✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so picture this: TFBS::PatternGen is the mother of all pattern generators 💅 it's a base class, which means it's the parent that hands down all the shared methods to its children 🫶

here's the tea tho — you never really use this one directly, bestie. it's meant to be inherited by a concrete pattern generator, and that concrete generator must have its own constructor. no constructor of its own? not invited to the function, sorry 💀

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🎀 pattern 🎀

• Title: pattern
• Usage: my $pattern_obj = $patterngen->pattern()
• Function: grabs a pattern object that the pattern generator produced 😌
• Returns: a pattern object — and heads up, the pattern generators available right now return a TFBS::Matrix::PFM object
• Args: none, nada, zilch
• Warning: ⚠️ if your pattern generator produced more than one pattern, this method call gives you only the first one and prints a warning on STDERR. so in those cases, bestie, you wanna use the all_patterns or patternSet methods instead. don't get caught out fr fr 😭

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🦋 patternSet 🦋

• Title: patternSet
• Usage: my $patternSet = $patterngen->patternSet()
• Function: retrieves a pattern set object containing all the patterns the pattern generator produced 👑 the full collection, no crumbs left behind
• Returns: a pattern set object — and for the pattern generators available right now, that's a TFBS::MatrixSet object
• Args: none ✨

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🌈 all_patterns 🌈

• Title: all_patterns
• Usage: my @patterns = $patterngen->all_patterns()
• Function: retrieves an array of pattern objects produced by the pattern generator 💖
• Returns: an array of pattern set objects — and for the pattern generators available right now, that's an array of TFBS::Matrix::PFM objects
• Args: none, periodt 💅

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this was TFBS::PatternGen from User Contributed Perl Documentation, running on perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-21 — go forth and generate those patterns, you absolute icon 🌟💜