Bpp/Seq/Io/Clustal.h

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//
// File: Clustal.h
// Created by: Julien Dutheil
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//

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#ifndef _CLUSTAL_H_
#define _CLUSTAL_H_

#include "AbstractIAlignment.h"
#include "AbstractOAlignment.h"
#include "../Container/SiteContainer.h"

// From the STL:
#include <iostream>

namespace bpp
{
class Clustal :
  public AbstractIAlignment,
  public AbstractOAlignment,
  public virtual ISequence
{
private:
  bool checkNames_;
  unsigned int nbSpacesBeforeSeq_;
  unsigned int charsByLine_;

public:
  Clustal(bool checkSequenceNames = true, unsigned int nbExtraSpacesBeforeSeq = 5, unsigned int charsByLine = 100) throw (Exception) :
    checkNames_(checkSequenceNames),
    nbSpacesBeforeSeq_(nbExtraSpacesBeforeSeq + 1),
    charsByLine_(charsByLine)
  {}

  virtual ~Clustal() {}

public:
  void appendAlignmentFromStream(std::istream& input, SiteContainer& sc) const throw (Exception);
  virtual SequenceContainer* readSequences(std::istream& input, const Alphabet* alpha) const throw (Exception) {
    return readAlignment(input, alpha);
  }
  virtual SequenceContainer* readSequences(const std::string& path, const Alphabet* alpha) const throw (Exception) {
    return readAlignment(path, alpha);
  }
  void writeAlignment(std::ostream& output, const SiteContainer& sc) const throw (Exception);
  void writeAlignment(const std::string& path, const SiteContainer& sc, bool overwrite = true) const throw (Exception)
  {
    AbstractOAlignment::writeAlignment(path, sc, overwrite);
  }
  const std::string getFormatName() const { return "Clustal"; }

  const std::string getFormatDescription() const { return "The Clustal alignment tool output format."; }

  bool checkNames() const { return checkNames_; }

  void checkNames(bool yn) { checkNames_ = yn; }
};
} // end of namespace bpp.

#endif // _CLUSTAL_H_