GOBPPARENTS {GO}R Documentation

Annotation of GO identifiers by the GO identifiers of their direct parents

Description

GOBPPARENTS mappes GO ids to the GO ids of their direct parents under biological process (BP). Direct parents of a given GO id are those GO ids correponding to all the parents nodes that have direct link to the node for the GO id of concern based on the directed acyclic graph defined by Gene Ontology Consortium. GO terms for parent nodes are more general than that of the child nods

Details

This is an environment object with key and value pairs. GO ids are keys and the corresponding parent GO ids are values. Values are named vectors of length 1 or greater depending on whether the GO id of concern has only one or more parents. The name(s) of value(s) is(are) the association code (isa or partof) between the GO id and its direct parents.GO ids that do not have any parent node are assigned NA as the values.

Biological process is defined as the broad biological goals, such as mitosis or purine metabolism, that are accomplished by ordered assemblies of molecular functions as defined by Gene Ontology Consortium.

Mappings were based on data provided:

Gene Ontology Consortium built: 2004-02-01.http://www.godatabase.org/dev/database/archive/2004-02-01/go_200402-termdb.xml.gz

Package built: Wed Mar 3 16:27:29 2004

References

http://www.geneontology.org/ and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/LocusLink

Examples

  require("GO", character.only = TRUE) || stop("GO unavailable")
  # Convert the environment object to a list
  xx <- as.list(GOBPPARENTS)
  # Remove GO ids that do not have any parent
  xx <- xx[!is.na(xx)]
  if(length(xx) > 0){
       # Get the first element
       xx[[1]]
       # Get more than one elements
       xx[1:3]
  }

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