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ontoCAT (version 1.24.0)

isEFOBranchRootById: Returns true if term is the branch root in EFO

Description

Returns true if term is the branch root in EFO. Function specific for EFO.

Usage

isEFOBranchRootById(object,id)

Arguments

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

Value

Returns true or false

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 isEFOBranchRoot