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ontoCAT (version 1.24.0)

getTermParentsById: 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

getTermParentsById(object,id)

Arguments

object
instance of the Ontology class
id
accession string of the term of interest

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, OntologyTerm and getTermParents