UpDownDistance.pm

=head1 LICENSE

Copyright [1999-2015] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
Copyright [2016-2017] EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute

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=head1 CONTACT

 William McLaren <wm2@ebi.ac.uk>
    
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=head1 NAME

 UpDownDistance

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 mv UpDownDistance.pm ~/.vep/Plugins
 ./vep -i variations.vcf --plugin UpDownDistance,10000

=head1 DESCRIPTION

 Change the distance used by the VEP to call upstream and downstream consequence
 types. Defaults to 5000. Up- and downstream distances can be set separately by
 passing two arguments:
 
 --plugin UpDownDistance,[up],[down]
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package UpDownDistance;

use strict;
use warnings;

use base qw(Bio::EnsEMBL::Variation::Utils::BaseVepPlugin);

sub new {
  my $class = shift;

  my $self = $class->SUPER::new(@_);
  
  # change up/down
  my $up = $self->params->[0] || 5000;
  my $down = $self->params->[1] || $up;
  $Bio::EnsEMBL::Variation::Utils::VariationEffect::UPSTREAM_DISTANCE = $up;
  $Bio::EnsEMBL::Variation::Utils::VariationEffect::DOWNSTREAM_DISTANCE = $down;
  
  return $self;
}

sub run { return {} };

1;