an object of class "igraph". As a direct graph, it has attributes to
vertices/nodes and edges:
vertex attributes: "name" (i.e. "Term ID"), "term_id"
(i.e. "Term ID"), "term_name" (i.e "Term Name") and "term_distance"
(i.e. Term Distance: the distance to the root; always 0 for the root
itself)
edge attributes: "relation" (either 'is_a' or 'part_of')
References
Robinson et al. (2012) The Human Phenotype Ontology: a tool for
annotating and analyzing human hereditary disease. Am J Hum
Genet, 83:610-615.