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Description

ontogetroot displays on-screen for a named ontology the root term statement(s). The information may be written to an output file in various formats.

Ontologies from the EMBOSS data directory are used.

Usage

% ontogetroot edam:0001234 Get ontology root terms by child identifier Obo output file [0001234.obo]:

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Command line arguments

Get ontology root terms by child identifier
Version: EMBOSS:6.4.0.0

   Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers:
  [-oboterms]          obo        Obo term filename and optional format, or
                                  reference (input query)
  [-outfile]           outobo     [*.ontogetroot] Output ontology term file
                                  name

   Additional (Optional) qualifiers:
   -obsolete           boolean    [N] The default behaviour is to not use or
                                  return obsolete terms. This option if set
                                  will include all terms.

   Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers: (none)
   Associated qualifiers:

   "-oboterms" associated qualifiers
   -iformat1           string     Input obo format
   -idbname1           string     User-provided database name

   "-outfile" associated qualifiers
   -odirectory2        string     Output directory
   -oformat2           string     Ontology term output format

   General qualifiers:
   -auto               boolean    Turn off prompts
   -stdout             boolean    Write first file to standard output
   -filter             boolean    Read first file from standard input, write
                                  first file to standard output
   -options            boolean    Prompt for standard and additional values
   -debug              boolean    Write debug output to program.dbg
   -verbose            boolean    Report some/full command line options
   -help               boolean    Report command line options and exit. More
                                  information on associated and general
                                  qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose
   -warning            boolean    Report warnings
   -error              boolean    Report errors
   -fatal              boolean    Report fatal errors
   -die                boolean    Report dying program messages
   -version            boolean    Report version number and exit

Qualifier	Type	Description	Allowed values	Default
Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers
[-oboterms] (Parameter 1)	obo	Obo term filename and optional format, or reference (input query)	OBO bio-ontology term(s)
[-outfile] (Parameter 2)	outobo	Output ontology term file name	OBO ontology term(s)	<*>.ontogetroot
Additional (Optional) qualifiers
-obsolete	boolean	The default behaviour is to not use or return obsolete terms. This option if set will include all terms.	Boolean value Yes/No	No
Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers
(none)
Associated qualifiers
"-oboterms" associated obo qualifiers
-iformat1 -iformat_oboterms	string	Input obo format	Any string
-idbname1 -idbname_oboterms	string	User-provided database name	Any string
"-outfile" associated outobo qualifiers
-odirectory2 -odirectory_outfile	string	Output directory	Any string
-oformat2 -oformat_outfile	string	Ontology term output format	Any string
General qualifiers
-auto	boolean	Turn off prompts	Boolean value Yes/No	N
-stdout	boolean	Write first file to standard output	Boolean value Yes/No	N
-filter	boolean	Read first file from standard input, write first file to standard output	Boolean value Yes/No	N
-options	boolean	Prompt for standard and additional values	Boolean value Yes/No	N
-debug	boolean	Write debug output to program.dbg	Boolean value Yes/No	N
-verbose	boolean	Report some/full command line options	Boolean value Yes/No	Y
-help	boolean	Report command line options and exit. More information on associated and general qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose	Boolean value Yes/No	N
-warning	boolean	Report warnings	Boolean value Yes/No	Y
-error	boolean	Report errors	Boolean value Yes/No	Y
-fatal	boolean	Report fatal errors	Boolean value Yes/No	Y
-die	boolean	Report dying program messages	Boolean value Yes/No	Y
-version	boolean	Report version number and exit	Boolean value Yes/No	N

Input file format

Input files for usage example

Database entry: edam:0001234

[Term]
id: EDAM:0001234
name: Sequence set (nucleic acid)
namespace: data
def: Any collection of multiple nucleotide sequences and associated metadata that do not (typically) correspond to common sequence database records or database entries.
subset: data
is_a: EDAM:0000850 ! Sequence set
is_a: EDAM:0002977 ! Nucleic acid sequence

Output file format

The default behaviour is to report the entire OBO term statement from the ontology. Optionally, then only the the term id, name and namespace, or just the term id will be reported.

The output file by default is in OBO plain text format as used by the ontologies in the EMBOSS data directory and explained at http://www.geneontology.org/GO.format.obo-1_2.shtml.

Optionally, the output can be in HTML, OBO-XML or JSON format.

Output files for usage example

File: 0001234.obo

[Term]
id: EDAM:0000006
name: Data
namespace: data
def: A type of data in common use in bioinformatics.
subset: data

Data files

OBO-format ontologies must be installed in the EMBOSS data directory and indexed. This is done automatically for typical installations.

Notes

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Diagnostic Error Messages

Exit status

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Author(s)

Please report all bugs to the EMBOSS bug team (emboss-bug © emboss.open-bio.org) not to the original author.

This application was modified by Jon Ison
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK

Please report all bugs to the EMBOSS bug team (emboss-bug © emboss.open-bio.org) not to the original author.

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