--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/orthologs/ucsb_hamster/unbuild.py	Tue Mar 11 12:19:13 2014 -0700
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+'''
+Usage: unbuild.py outputDirectoryName hmmFileWithTabs
+This script takes a tab sperated, newline escaped HMM models file then splits the models up and makes a file list.
+The output files are put into the directory outputDirectoryName.
+'''
+from sys import argv, exit
+import os
+
+
+def parse(line):
+    line = line.partition('\t')
+    name = line[0] + ".hmm"
+    data = line[2].replace("\\n", "\n")
+    return name, data
+
+
+def writeFile(location, data):
+    try:
+        with open(location, 'w') as f:
+            f.write(data)
+    except:
+        pass
+
+
+def createDir(dir):
+    if not os.path.exists(dir):
+        os.makedirs(dir)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    if len(argv) != 3:
+        print "Usage: unbuild.py outputDirectoryName hmmFileWithTabs"
+        exit()
+    dir = argv[1]
+    createDir(dir)
+    
+    name_list = [] #  Stores new file names
+
+    #  Read data and seperate into files.
+    with open(argv[2], 'r') as f:
+        for line in f:
+            name, data = parse(line)
+            if data.strip() == "":  # no data? skip it.
+                continue
+            name_list.append(name)
+            name = dir + os.sep + name
+            writeFile(name, data)
+
+    #  Write new file names to a file.
+    name_list_location = dir + os.sep + "hmmlist.txt"
+    with open(name_list_location, 'w') as f:
+        for name in name_list:
+            f.write(name + "\n")