showHierarchyDownToTermById: Returns tree representation of term's parents
Description
Returns set of terms that represent ontology "opened" down to specified term, hence displaying all its parents first and then a tree level, containing specified term.
Term in the set is represented as the instance of the OntologyTerm class.
Usage
showHierarchyDownToTermById(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 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/