Package org.biojava.nbio.ontology
Interface OntologyOps
- All Known Implementing Classes:
DefaultOps
public interface OntologyOps
This is an interface for optimizing ontology operators.
Some ontology implementations will be able to compute some derived properties very quickly because of how they store their data. This is likely to out- perform generic implementations of algorithms using the Ontology interface to get the same result. Ontology instances provide an instance of OntologyOps, publishing optimizations of some common operations. The reasoner may then choose to call OntologyOps methods on the Ontology instance rather than using its fall-back implementations.
- Since:
- 1.4
- Author:
- Matthew Pocock