getMinimumSubsumer           package:GOSim           R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

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

_U_s_a_g_e:

     getMinimumSubsumer(term1, term2)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

   term1: GO term 1 

   term2: GO term 2 

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

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

_V_a_l_u_e:

     GO term representing the minimum subsumer

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Holger Froehlich

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

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

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'getTermSim', 'getGOGraph', 'link{setOntology}'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

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

