getMinimumSubsumer {GOSim}R Documentation

Compute minimum subsumer of two GO terms.

Description

Returns the minimum subsumer (i.e. the common ancestor having the maximal information content) of two GO terms

Usage

getMinimumSubsumer(term1, term2)

Arguments

term1 GO term 1
term2 GO term 2

Details

The result is computed within the currently set ontology ("BP","MF","CC").

Value

GO term representing the minimum subsumer

Author(s)

Holger Froehlich

References

P. Resnik, Using Information Content to evaluate semantic similarity in a taxonomy, Proc. 14th Int. Conf. Artificial Intel., 1995

See Also

getTermSim, getGOGraph, link{setOntology}

Examples

 # setOntology("BP")
 getMinimumSubsumer("GO:0006955","GO:0007584")
 # returns GO:0050896

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