getTermRelations: Returns set of terms that are in defined relation with term of interest
Description
Returns set of terms that are in defined relation with the term of interest
Usage
getTermRelations(object1,object2,relation)
Arguments
object1
instance of the Ontology class
object2
instance of the OntologyTerm class
relation
relation name
Value
Returns set of ontology term's synonymss if there are some
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 Precedingshttp://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/