getMinimumSubsumer {GOSim} | R Documentation |
Returns the minimum subsumer (i.e. the common ancestor having the maximal information content) of two GO terms
getMinimumSubsumer(term1, term2)
term1 |
GO term 1 |
term2 |
GO term 2 |
The result is computed within the currently set ontology ("BP","MF","CC").
GO term representing the minimum subsumer. If there is no minimum subsumer within the currently set GO category (e.g. because one of the GO terms does not exist), the result is the string "NA".
Holger Froehlich
P. Resnik, Using Information Content to evaluate semantic similarity in a taxonomy, Proc. 14th Int. Conf. Artificial Intel., 1995
getTermSim
, getGOGraph
, setOntology
setOntology("BP") getMinimumSubsumer("GO:0006955","GO:0007584") # returns GO:0050896