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 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/