6. Perl Output

Click on the Perl Program tab.

Then click on Compile button.

You will see a whole bunch of perl code appear. This perl code is basically a perl program that will do exactly what you just did by clicking around in Vect, so you can think of it as a perl program you have just made :-)

You can save this perl program and feed it into your machines. This will automate a lot of tasks for you. For example, if you have 20,000 files and you want to extract all the lines containing "protein" in them, you can just create some rules in vect, save the resulting perl program, then feed those 20,000 files into the perl program you just created in Vect.

Summary of what you have learned

As you can see basic steps in Vect are to :

1)pick out the data you want, best you can from the raw data you loaded

2) manipulate the data in Convert Data panel (summation, extraction, etc)

3) Do some final formatting in Output Data panel (order, spacing, etc)

4) Output!!!

Written by Jia Zhen Lee
Aug 2004

Revised by Song Li
Nov 2005