goflat - a parser for the Gene Ontology flat-file format use Bio::OntologyIO; # do not use directly -- use via Bio::OntologyIO my $parser = Bio::OntologyIO->new ( -format => "go", -defs_file => "/home/czmasek/GO/GO.defs", -files => ["/home/czmasek/GO/component.ontology", "/home/czmasek/GO/function.ontology", "/home/czmasek/GO/process.ontology"] ); my $go_ontology = $parser->next_ontology(); my $IS_A = Bio::Ontology::RelationshipType->get_instance( "IS_A" ); my $PART_OF = Bio::Ontology::RelationshipType->get_instance( "PART_OF" ); Needs Graph.pm from CPAN. This is essentially a very thin derivation of the dagflat parser.

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report bugs to the Bioperl bug tracking system to help us keep track the bugs and their resolution. Bug reports can be submitted via email or the web: bioperl-bugs@bio.perl.org http://bugzilla.bioperl.org/ Christian M. Zmasek Email: czmasek@gnf.org or cmzmasek@yahoo.com WWW: http://www.genetics.wustl.edu/eddy/people/zmasek/ Address: Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation 10675 John Jay Hopkins Drive San Diego, CA 92121

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Hilmar Lapp, hlapp at gmx.net The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _

new
Title : new Usage : $parser = Bio::OntologyIO->new( -format => "go", -defs_file => "/path/to/GO.defs", -files => ["/path/to/component.ontology", "/path/to/function.ontology", "/path/to/process.ontology"] ); Function: Creates a new goflat parser. Returns : A new goflat parser object, implementing L<Bio::OntologyIO>. Args : -defs_file => the name of the file holding the term definitions -files => a single ontology flat file holding the term relationships, or an array ref holding the file names (for GO, there will usually be 3 files: component.ontology, function.ontology, process.ontology) -file => if there is only a single flat file, it may also be specified via the -file parameter -ontology_name => the name of the ontology; if not specified the parser will auto-discover it by using the term that starts with a '$', and converting underscores to spaces -engine => the Bio::Ontology::OntologyEngineI object to be reused (will be created otherwise); note that every Bio::Ontology::OntologyI will qualify as well since that one inherits from the former.