NAME

       Bio::Phenotype::MeSH::Term - A MeSH term

SYNOPSIS

         use Bio::Phenotype::MeSH::Term;

         # create a term object
         my $term = Bio::Phenotype::MeSH::Term->new
             (-id => 'D000001',
              -name => 'Dietary Fats',
              -description => 'dietary fats are...'
             );

         # get a Bio::Phenotype::MeSH::Twig somehow...
         $term->add_twig($twig1);

DESCRIPTION

       This class keeps information about MeSH terms. MeSH stands for Medical Subject Headings
       and is one of the ways for annotaing biomedical literature.  The terminology is maintained
       by National Library of Medicine of USA . See http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html.

       In addition to id, name and description a term can know about its surrounding terms
       (Bio::Phenotype::MeSH::Twig) in the term hierarchy.

       This class is mainly used from Bio::DB::MeSH which retrieves terms over the Web.

SEE ALSO

       Bio::DB::MeSH, Bio::Phenotype::MeSH::Twig

FEEDBACK

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       rather than to the module maintainer directly. Many experienced and reponsive experts will
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       of the problem with code and data examples if at all possible.

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AUTHOR

       Heikki Lehvaslaiho, heikki-at-bioperl-dot-org

APPENDIX

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

   id
        Title   : id
        Usage   : $obj->id( "r1" );
                  or
                  print $obj->id();
        Function: Set/get for the id.
        Returns : A id [scalar].
        Args    : A id [scalar] (optional).

   name
        Title   : name
        Usage   : $obj->name( "r1" );
                  or
                  print $obj->name();
        Function: Set/get for the name.
        Returns : A name [scalar].
        Args    : A name [scalar] (optional).

   description
        Title   : description
        Usage   : $obj->description( "r1" );
                  or
                  print $obj->description();
        Function: Set/get for the description.
        Returns : A description [scalar].
        Args    : A description [scalar] (optional).

   add_synonym
        Title   : add_synonym
        Usage   : $obj->add_synonym( @synonyms );
                  or
                  $obj->add_synonym( $synonym );
        Function: Pushes one or more synonyms for the term  term
                  into the list of synonyms.
        Returns :
        Args    : scalar(s).

   each_synonym
        Title   : each_synonym()
        Usage   : @gs = $obj->each_synonym();
        Function: Returns a list of gene symbols [scalars, most likely Strings]
                  associated with this phenotype.
        Returns : A list of scalars.
        Args    :

   purge_synonyms
        Usage   : $obj->purge_synonym();
        Function: Deletes  the list of synonyms to this term.
        Returns : A list of scalars.
        Args    :

   Twig management
       Each MeSH term belongs to a complex tree like hierarchy of terms where each term can
       appear multiple times. The immediately surrounding nodes of the tree are modelled in
       twigs.

       See: Bio::Phenotype::MeSH::Twig.

   add_twig
        Title   : add_twig
        Usage   : $obj->add_twig( @twigs );
                  or
                  $obj->add_twig( $twig );
        Function: Pushes one or more twig term names [scalars, most likely Strings]
                  into the list of twigs.
        Returns :
        Args    : scalar(s).

   each_twig
        Title   : each_twig()
        Usage   : @gs = $obj->each_twig();
        Function: Returns a list of gene symbols [scalars, most likely Strings]
                  associated with this phenotype.
        Returns : A list of scalars.
        Args    :

   purge_twigs
        Usage   : $obj->purge_twig();
        Function: Deletes  the list of twigs associated with this term.
        Returns : A list of scalars.
        Args    :

   each_parent
        Title   : each_parent()
        Usage   : @gs = $obj->each_parent();
        Function: Returns a list of names of parents for this term
        Returns : A list of scalars.
        Args    :