filterGOByOntology: Filter GO terms by a specified GO ontology
In annotate: Annotation for microarrays

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Given a character vector containing GO identifiers, return a logical vector indicating which GO IDs are in the specified ontology (BP, CC, or MF).

1	filterGOByOntology(goids, ontology = c("BP", "CC", "MF"))

`goids`	a character vector of GO IDs
`ontology`	One of "BP", "CC", or "MF"

A logical vector with length equal to goids. A TRUE indicates that the corresponding GO ID in goids is a member of the ontology specified by ontology.

Seth Falcon

haveGO <- suppressWarnings(require("GO.db"))
if (haveGO) {
    ids <- c("GO:0001838", "GO:0001839")
    stopifnot(all(filterGOByOntology(ids, "BP")))
    stopifnot(!any(filterGOByOntology(ids, "MF")))
} else cat("Sorry, this example requires the GO package\n")