NAME

       Bio::OntologyIO::soflat - a parser for the Sequence Ontology flat-file format

SYNOPSIS

         use Bio::OntologyIO;

         # do not use directly -- use via Bio::OntologyIO
         my $parser = Bio::OntologyIO->new
               ( -format       => "so", # or soflat
            -defs_file    => "/home/czmasek/SO/SO.defs",
                 -file         => "/home/czmasek/SO/sofa.ontology" );

         my $sofa_ontology = $parser->next_ontology();

         my $IS_A    = Bio::Ontology::RelationshipType->get_instance( "IS_A" );
         my $PART_OF = Bio::Ontology::RelationshipType->get_instance( "PART_OF" );

DESCRIPTION

       Needs Graph.pm from CPAN.

       This is essentially a very thin derivation of the dagflat base-parser.

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AUTHOR

       Christian M. Zmasek

       Email: czmasek-at-burnham.org  or  cmzmasek@yahoo.com

       WWW:   http://monochrome-effect.net/

       Address:

         Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
         10675 John Jay Hopkins Drive
         San Diego, CA 92121

   CONTRIBUTOR
        Hilmar Lapp, hlapp at gmx.net

APPENDIX

       The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are
       usually preceded with a _

   new
        Title   : new
        Usage   : $parser = Bio::OntologyIO->new(
                                    -format => "soflat",
                                    -files => ["/path/to/sofa.ontology"] );
        Function: Creates a new soflat parser.
        Returns : A new soflat parser object, implementing Bio::OntologyIO.
        Args    : -defs_file  => the name of the file holding the term
                                 definitions
                  -files      => a single ontology flat file holding the
                                 term relationships, or an array ref holding
                                 the file names
                  -file       => if there is only a single flat file, it may
                                 also be specified via the -file parameter
                  -ontology_name => the name of the ontology; if not specified the
                                 parser will auto-discover it by using the term
                                 that starts with a $, and converting underscores
                                 to spaces
                  -engine     => the Bio::Ontology::OntologyEngineI object
                                 to be reused (will be created otherwise); note
                                 that every Bio::Ontology::OntologyI will
                                 qualify as well since that one inherits from the
                                 former.

       See Bio::Ontology::OntologyI.