[Bioperl-l] OntologyTermI

Kris Boulez kris.boulez@algonomics.com
Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:21:18 +0200


Quoting Lincoln Stein (lstein@cshl.org):
> In a classic "have your cake and eat it too" compromise, we could have a NodeI 
> interface that Bio::Ontology::Term can choose to implement.  Methods are:
> 
> 	children()		# return NodeI children
> 	parents()		# return NodeI parents
> 	all_children()	# return all NodeI children
> 	all_parents()	# return all NodeI parents
> 
I would be very much intrested in such methods. Bio::Structure now
has a set of self-grown methods like these.

Some time ago Jason mentioned to me Tree-DAG_Node. That version (1.04)
seemed to do most of what is needed, but it wasn't -w clean.

Kris,