searchTerm: Searches term by its name in ontology

In ontoCAT: Ontology traversal and search

Description

Searches the term by its name in the ontology. Returns list of term's accessions.

Usage

    searchTerm(object,id)

Arguments

object	instance of the Ontology class
id	term's name or part of the name

Value

Returns list of accessions

Author(s)

Natalja Kurbatova

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 and OntologyTerm

Examples

    efo <- getEFO()
    searchTerm(efo,"thymus")

ontoCAT documentation built on Nov. 17, 2017, 12:06 p.m.