NAME

       Bio::Biblio::IO::medline2ref - a converter of a raw hash to MEDLINE citations

VERSION

       version 1.70

SYNOPSIS

        # to be written

DESCRIPTION

        # to be written

METHODS

   new
   convert

INTERNAL METHODS

   _load_instance
   _new_instance
       Load a module (given as a real module name, e.g. 'Bio::Biblio::MedlineJournalArticle'),
       call new() method on it, and return the instance returned by the new() method

   _convert_date
       See OpenBQS specification (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~senger/openbqs/) how a date should be
       coded; TBD: this can be improved - checking is missing, timezones,
            converting to UTC...  Also note that this routine does not convert 'medline_date' -
       it is stored in a separate attribute without ant conversion.

   _convert_personal_name
       $person is a hash with persons attributes - we need to create and return a
       Bio::Biblio::Person object

   _convert_journal_article
       Takes journal article related attributes from $article and convert them into $result and
       at the end call _convert_article (which is shared with book article)

   _convert_book_article
       Takes book article related attributes from $article and convert them into $result and at
       the end call _convert_article (which is shared with journal article)

   _convert_article
       Takes from $source article related attributes and convert them into $article (these
       attributes are the same both for journal and book articles

   _convert_providers
       Takes a ref-array of providers - they can be persons or organisations, and returns an
       array of converted providers

FEEDBACK

   Mailing lists
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       your comments and suggestions preferably to the Bioperl mailing list.  Your participation
       is much appreciated.

         bioperl-l@bioperl.org                  - General discussion
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   Support
       Please direct usage questions or support issues to the mailing list: bioperl-l@bioperl.org

       rather than to the module maintainer directly. Many experienced and reponsive experts will
       be able look at the problem and quickly address it. Please include a thorough description
       of the problem with code and data examples if at all possible.

   Reporting bugs
       Report bugs to the Bioperl bug tracking system to help us keep track of the bugs and their
       resolution. Bug reports can be submitted via the web:

         https://redmine.open-bio.org/projects/bioperl/

LEGAL

   Authors
       Martin Senger <senger@ebi.ac.uk>

   Copyright and License
       This software is Copyright (c) by 2002 European Bioinformatics Institute and released
       under the license of the same terms as the perl 5 programming language system itself