ontoCAT (version 1.24.0)

getTermParents: Returns set of direct parents of the term of interest

Description

Returns set of direct parents of the term of interest. Term in the set is represented as the instance of the OntologyTerm class

Usage

getTermParents(object1,object2)

Arguments

object1

instance of the Ontology class

object2

instance of the OntologyTerm class

Value

Returns set of ontology terms: each term in the set is the instance of the OntologyTerm class

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 and OntologyTerm

Examples

    efo <- getEFO()
    term <- getTermById(efo,"EFO_0004902")
    getTermParents(efo,term)