Package org.biojava.ontology

Interface OntologyTerm

All Superinterfaces:

Annotatable, Changeable, Term

All Known Implementing Classes:

OntologyTerm.Impl

public interface OntologyTerm
extends Term

A term in an ontology which identifies another ontology.

This Term type has an associated ontology. It is meant to represent that ontology so that you can reason over them. For example, you could add information to an Ontology containing an OntologyTerm stating how the OntologyTerm's Ontology relates to other entities. This allows classifications of Ontologies to be built. You could say that GO is a biological ontology, as is SO or perhaps declare something about the source of the information.

Since:

1.4

Author:

Thomas Down, Matthew Pocock

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface	Description
static class	OntologyTerm.Impl	Simple in-memory implementation of a remote ontology term.

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface org.biojava.bio.Annotatable

Annotatable.AnnotationForwarder

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.biojava.bio.Annotatable

ANNOTATION

Fields inherited from interface org.biojava.ontology.Term

ONTOLOGY

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Ontology	getOntology()	Get the remote ontology referenced by this term

Methods inherited from interface org.biojava.bio.Annotatable

getAnnotation

Methods inherited from interface org.biojava.utils.Changeable

addChangeListener, addChangeListener, isUnchanging, removeChangeListener, removeChangeListener

Methods inherited from interface org.biojava.ontology.Term

addSynonym, getDescription, getName, getSynonyms, removeSynonym, setDescription

Method Detail

getOntology

Ontology getOntology()

Get the remote ontology referenced by this term

Specified by:

getOntology in interface Term

Returns:

the ontology