Gets core information about the GO term of interest.
Usage
term.go(go, children = FALSE)
Value
Returns a dataframe containing core information such as term name and definition, reference, aspect, and whether or not the term is obsolete. If children is set to TRUE, the function returns a list.
Arguments
go
GO id.
children
logical, when true GO children terms are returned.
Author
Juan Carlos Aledo
Details
When the argument children is set to TRUE, the output of this function is a list with two elements: the first one is a dataframe with the core information, and the second one is a dataframe containing the children terms.
References
Rhee et al. (2008) Nature Reviews Genetics 9:509–515.