GOCCANCESTOR              package:GO.db              R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This data set describes associations between GO molecular function
     (CC) terms and their ancestor CC terms, based on the directed
     acyclic graph (DAG) defined by the Gene Ontology Consortium. The
     format is an R object mapping the GO CC terms to all ancestor
     terms, where an ancestor term is a more general GO term that
     precedes the given GO term in the DAG (in other words, the
     parents, and all their parents, etc.).

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     Each GO CC term is mapped to a vector of ancestor GO C terms.

     Cellular component is defined as the subcellular structures,
     locations, and macromolecular complexes; examples include nucleus,
     telomere, and origin recognition complex as defined by Gene
     Ontology Consortium.

     Mappings were based on data provided: Gene Ontology (
     ftp://ftp.geneontology.org/pub/go/godatabase/archive/latest ) on
     200803

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     <URL: http://www.geneontology.org/> and <URL:
     http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=gene>

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

       # Convert the object to a list
       xx <- as.list(GOCCANCESTOR)
       # Remove GO IDs that do not have any ancestor
       xx <- xx[!is.na(xx)]
       if(length(xx) > 0){
         # Get the ancestor GO IDs for the first two elents of xx
         goids <- xx[1:2]
       }

