NAME

       edamdef - Find EDAM ontology terms by definition

SYNOPSIS

       edamdef -query string [-namespace list] -subclasses boolean -obsolete boolean
               -edamdef outobo

       edamdef -help

DESCRIPTION

       edamdef is a command line program from EMBOSS (“the European Molecular Biology Open
       Software Suite”). It is part of the "Ontology:EDAM,Data retrieval:Ontology data" command
       group(s).

OPTIONS

   Input section
       -query string

   Additional section
       -namespace list
           By default all terms are returned. Searches can be limited to one or a few namespaces.
           Default value: *

   Advanced section
       -subclasses boolean
           Extend the query matches to include all terms which are specialisations (EDAM
           sub-classes) of the matched type. Default value: N

       -obsolete boolean
           The default behaviour is to not use or return obsolete terms. This option if set will
           include all terms. Default value: N

   Output section
       -edamdef outobo

BUGS

       Bugs can be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking system (http://bugs.debian.org/emboss), or
       directly to the EMBOSS developers
       (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93650&atid=605031).

SEE ALSO

       edamdef is fully documented via the tfm(1) system.

AUTHOR

       Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
           Wrote the script used to autogenerate this manual page.

COPYRIGHT

       This manual page was autogenerated from an Ajax Control Definition of the EMBOSS package.
       It can be redistributed under the same terms as EMBOSS itself.