=head1 LICENSE

Copyright [1999-2015] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
Copyright [2016-2023] EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

=cut


=head1 CONTACT

  Please email comments or questions to the public Ensembl
  developers list at <http://lists.ensembl.org/mailman/listinfo/dev>.

  Questions may also be sent to the Ensembl help desk at
  <http://www.ensembl.org/Help/Contact>.

=cut

=head1 NAME

Bio::EnsEMBL::Map::MapLocation

=head1 SYNOPSIS

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Represents a location on a genetic map, yac map, radition hybrid map,
etc.

=head1 METHODS

=cut


package Bio::EnsEMBL::Map::MapLocation;

use strict;
use vars qw(@ISA);

=head2 new

  Arg [1]    : (optional) string $name
  Arg [2]    : (optional) string $map_name
  Arg [3]    : (optional) string $chromosome_name
  Arg [4]    : (optional) string $position
  Arg [5]    : (optional) float $lod_score
  Example    : $map_location = Bio::EnsEMBL::Map::MapLocation->
                 new('DS1234',
                     'genethon',
                     'X',
                     '12.39',
                     50.12);
  Description: Creates a new MapLocation
  Returntype : Bio::EnsEMBL::Map::MapLocation
  Exceptions : none
  Caller     : general
  Status     : stable

=cut

sub new {
  my ($caller, $name, $map_name, $chromosome_name, $position, $lod_score) = @_;

  my $class = ref($caller) || $caller;

  return bless( {'map_name'        => $map_name,
                 'name'            => $name,
                 'chromosome_name' => $chromosome_name,
                 'position'        => $position,
                 'lod_score'       => $lod_score}, $class );
}



=head2 map_name

  Arg [1]    : string $map_name
  Example    : $map_name = $map_location->map_name;
  Description: Getter/Setter for the map name
  Returntype : string
  Exceptions : none
  Caller     : general
  Status     : stable

=cut

sub map_name {
  my $self = shift;
  $self->{'map_name'} = shift if(@_);
  return $self->{'map_name'};
}



=head2 name

  Arg [1]    : (optional) string $name
  Example    : $name = $map_location->name;
  Description: A name associated with the marker at this position.  For
               example if this is a genethon map location the name will be
               the synonym of source genethon.
  Returntype : string
  Exceptions : none
  Caller     : general
  Status     : stable

=cut

sub name {
  my $self = shift;
  $self->{'name'} = shift if(@_);
  return $self->{'name'};
}


=head2 chromosome_name

  Arg [1]    : (optional) string $chromosome_name
  Example    : $chr_name = $map_location->chromosome_name;
               $map_location->chromosome_name('X');
  Description: The name of the chromosome associated with this map location
  Returntype : string
  Exceptions : none
  Caller     : general
  Status     : stable

=cut

sub chromosome_name{
  my $self = shift;
  $self->{'chromosome_name'} = shift if(@_);
  return $self->{'chromosome_name'};
}



=head2 position

  Arg [1]    : (optional) string $position
  Example    : $pos = $map_location->position;
  Description: Getter/Setter for the position of this map location
  Returntype : string
  Exceptions : none
  Caller     : general
  Status     : stable

=cut

sub position {
  my $self = shift;
  $self->{'position'} = shift if(@_);
  return $self->{'position'};
}



=head2 lod_score

  Arg [1]    : (optional) float $lod
  Example    : $lod = $map_location->lod_score;
  Description: Getter/Setter for lod score of this map location
  Returntype : float
  Exceptions : none
  Caller     : general
  Status     : stable

=cut

sub lod_score {
  my $self = shift;
  $self->{'lod_score'} = shift if(@_);
  return $self->{'lod_score'};
}


1;
