ontoCAT (version 1.24.0)

OntologyTerm-class: Class "OntologyTerm"

Description

External view for an ontological terms in ontoCAT package

Objects from the Class

Don't create objects of this class. It is a wrapper around an internal Java representation.

Slots

term:

Object of class "jobjRef" No user-serviceable parts inside.

Methods

getAccession

signature(object = "OntologyTerm"): Returns accession of the term

getLabel

signature(object = "OntologyTerm"): Returns description of the term

show

signature(object = "OntologyTerm"): Displays term accession and description string

References

Adamusiak T, Burdett T, van der Velde K J, Abeygunawardena N, Antonakaki D, Parkinson H and Swertz M: OntoCAT -- a simpler way to access ontology resources. Available from Nature Precedings http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2010.4666.1 (2010) Malone J, Holloway E, Adamusiak T, Kapushesky M, Zheng J, Kolesnikov N, Zhukova A, Brazma A, Parkinson H: Modeling Sample Variables with an Experimental Factor Ontology. Bioinformatics 2010, 26(8):1112--1118 Experimental Factor Ontology http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo Ontology Common API Tasks java library http://www.ontocat.org Java sources and javadocs: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ontocat/files/

See Also

Ontology

Examples

    ontology <- getEFO()
    term <- getTermById(ontology,"EFO_0001221")
    show(term)
    getAccession(term)
    getLabel(term)