[Bioperl-l] Bio::OntologyIO

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

Sohel,

This is great. I've used to module and it works well.

I am trying to see if I could create write_ontology method so that I could 
recreate the obo file already read in. So far, there is one big snag:

Synonyms are all read in into one structure. The methods dealing with synonyms 
in Bio::Ontology::Term all work with lists of strings. The problem is that in 
obo files there are four different types of synonyms: 

	broad, exact, narrow, related

What would be the best way, at code and interface levels, to associate these 
categories to synonyms?

Currently, add_synonym() accepts a list of synonym strings as an argument. 
Most of the time only one synonym gets passed to the method. If that were the 
rule, I could add an other argument and store the category in an other 
internal array. Bio::Ontology::OBOterm inherits from Bio::Ontology::Term, so 
I could do the changes there. Would this change break anything? In 
Bioperl-db?

	-Heikki

On Thursday 01 June 2006 19:17, Sohel Merchant wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
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>     I would like to announce the availability of an obo format parser
> which can parse GO, PO, PATO and other ontology files in obo format. The
> parser can be used through the Bio::OntologyIO module. Thanks to HIlamar
> Lapp and Chris Mungall for their invaluable contributions.
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> Thanks,
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> Sohel Merchant.
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> Sohel Merchant
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