NAME

PomBase::Chobo::OntologyData - An in memory representation of an Ontology

SYNOPSIS

Objects of this class represent the part of an ontology that can be stored in a Chado database.

AUTHOR

Kim Rutherford <kmr44@cam.ac.uk>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to kmr44@cam.ac.uk.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc PomBase::Chobo::OntologyData

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2012 Kim Rutherford, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

FUNCTIONS

add

 Usage   : $ontology_data->add(metadata => {..}, terms => [...]);
 Function: Add some terms, often all terms from one OBO file
 Args    : metadata - the metadata for the terms
           terms - an array of OntologyTerm objects
 Return  : Nothing, dies on error

finish

 Usage   : $self->finish();
 Function: remove namespaces that are empty due to merging and check that
           objects and subjects of relationships exist