[Bioperl-l] ontology help

[Marc Logghe]

> I believe the current implementation of delegation from the 
> Bio::Ontology::Ontology methods to their counterparts in the 
> currently 
> used engine implementation expects that only terms and rel.ships from 
> the same ontology will be asked for.
> 
> The original rationale behind this was to make it possible to use one 
> and the same engine instance to back multiple OntologyI instances. If 
> you did this, you would need to filter out terms from other 
> ontologies 
> co-using the engine instance.
> 
> At hindsight I think this is probably over-engineered and trying to 
> solve a non-existing problem. So, we could as well demand that one 
> engine instance only serve one ontology instance and you're 
> on your own 
> if you do otherwise. This would then allow us to remove the 
> post-filtering code that filters hits returned from the engine.
> 
> You could try and see whether that will solve your problem as well.
Solved.
Thanks a lot for the help, Hilmar !!!!
At first, I indeed always used a separate engine. Taking your advice, a created a Bio::Ontology::Ontology first for the first ontology and reused that engine for the other two ontologies. And that did the trick !!!
Regards,
Marc



***********************************************************
Marc Logghe, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Scientific Computing Group
Devgen nv
Technologiepark 30
B - 9052 Ghent-Zwijnaarde
Belgium
Tel: +32 9 324 24 83
Fax: +32 9 324 24 25

> **** DISCLAIMER ********************************************************** 
> "This e-mail and any attachments thereto may contain information 
> which is confidential and/or protected by intellectual property 
> rights and are intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. 
> Any use of the information contained herein (including, but not limited to, 
> total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution in any form) 
> by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. 
> If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender either 
> by telephone or by e-mail and delete the material from any computer. 
> Thank you for your cooperation."