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[Gofriends] matrices from terms
Mary Dolan
Mary_Dolan at umit.maine.edu
Fri Nov 14 11:34:50 PST 2008
Nicholas Mitsakakis <n.mitsakakis at utoronto.ca> writes:
>I have a list of N GO terms and I would like to generate two N by N
>binary matrices. In the first (let's call it parent-child) matrix the
>entry (i,j) will be 1 if and only if the i-th GO term is a parent of the
>j-th term. At the second (ancestors-descendants) matrix 1's at (i,j)
>entry will mean that i term is an ancestor of j term.
>
>I am interested only in the BP ontology and also, only in "is_a"
>relationships.
Hi, Nicholas.
I have a simple perl script that parses a gene_ontology.obo file and generates a (tab-delimited text) list of term-ancestor pairs. I'm happy to send that to you if it would be useful.
Cheers,
Mary
Mary E. Dolan, Ph.D.
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