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Function

Count ontology term(s)

Description

ontocount reads ontology entries and reports the number of entries found.

Usage

Here is a sample session with ontocount


% ontocount edam:1234 
Count ontology term(s)
Output file [stdout]: 

1

Go to the input files for this example

Example 2


% ontocount edam:1234 -subclasses 
Count ontology term(s)
Output file [stdout]: 

5

Command line arguments

Count ontology term(s)
Version: EMBOSS:6.6.0.0

   Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers:
  [-oboterms]          obo        Obo term filename and optional format, or
                                  reference (input query)
  [-outfile]           outfile    [stdout] Output file name

   Additional (Optional) qualifiers: (none)
   Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers:
   -subclasses         boolean    [N] Extend the query matches to include all
                                  terms which are specialisations
                                  (sub-classes) of the matched terms.
   -obsolete           boolean    [N] The default behaviour is to not use or
                                  return obsolete terms. This option if set
                                  will include all terms.

   Associated qualifiers:

   "-oboterms" associated qualifiers
   -iformat1           string     Input obo format
   -iquery1            string     Input query fields or ID list
   -ioffset1           integer    Input start position offset
   -idbname1           string     User-provided database name

   "-outfile" associated qualifiers
   -odirectory2        string     Output directory

   General qualifiers:
   -auto               boolean    Turn off prompts
   -stdout             boolean    Write first file to standard output
   -filter             boolean    Read first file from standard input, write
                                  first file to standard output
   -options            boolean    Prompt for standard and additional values
   -debug              boolean    Write debug output to program.dbg
   -verbose            boolean    Report some/full command line options
   -help               boolean    Report command line options and exit. More
                                  information on associated and general
                                  qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose
   -warning            boolean    Report warnings
   -error              boolean    Report errors
   -fatal              boolean    Report fatal errors
   -die                boolean    Report dying program messages
   -version            boolean    Report version number and exit

Qualifier Type Description Allowed values Default
Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers
[-oboterms]
(Parameter 1)
obo Obo term filename and optional format, or reference (input query) OBO bio-ontology term(s)  
[-outfile]
(Parameter 2)
outfile Output file name Output file stdout
Additional (Optional) qualifiers
(none)
Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers
-subclasses boolean Extend the query matches to include all terms which are specialisations (sub-classes) of the matched terms. Boolean value Yes/No No
-obsolete boolean The default behaviour is to not use or return obsolete terms. This option if set will include all terms. Boolean value Yes/No No
Associated qualifiers
"-oboterms" associated obo qualifiers
-iformat1
-iformat_oboterms
string Input obo format Any string  
-iquery1
-iquery_oboterms
string Input query fields or ID list Any string  
-ioffset1
-ioffset_oboterms
integer Input start position offset Any integer value 0
-idbname1
-idbname_oboterms
string User-provided database name Any string  
"-outfile" associated outfile qualifiers
-odirectory2
-odirectory_outfile
string Output directory Any string  
General qualifiers
-auto boolean Turn off prompts Boolean value Yes/No N
-stdout boolean Write first file to standard output Boolean value Yes/No N
-filter boolean Read first file from standard input, write first file to standard output Boolean value Yes/No N
-options boolean Prompt for standard and additional values Boolean value Yes/No N
-debug boolean Write debug output to program.dbg Boolean value Yes/No N
-verbose boolean Report some/full command line options Boolean value Yes/No Y
-help boolean Report command line options and exit. More information on associated and general qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose Boolean value Yes/No N
-warning boolean Report warnings Boolean value Yes/No Y
-error boolean Report errors Boolean value Yes/No Y
-fatal boolean Report fatal errors Boolean value Yes/No Y
-die boolean Report dying program messages Boolean value Yes/No Y
-version boolean Report version number and exit Boolean value Yes/No N

Input file format

The input is a standard EMBOSS ontology query.

The major ontology sources defined as standard in EMBOSS installations are EDAM, GO (gene Ontology) and SO (Sequence Ontology).

Data can also be read from ontology output in "obo" format written by an EMBOSS application.

Input files for usage example

Database entry: edam:1234

[Term]
id: EDAM_data:1234
name: Sequence set (nucleic acid)
namespace: data
def: Any collection of multiple nucleotide sequences and associated metadata that do not (typically) correspond to common sequence database records or database entries.
subset: bioinformatics
subset: data
subset: edam
created_in: "beta12orEarlier"
is_a: EDAM_data:0850 ! Sequence set
is_a: EDAM_data:2977 ! Nucleic acid sequence

Output file format

ontocount reports the number of ontology terms read.

Data files

None.

Notes

None.

References

None.

Warnings

None.

Diagnostic Error Messages

None.

Exit status

It always exits with status 0.

Known bugs

None.

See also

Program name Description
ontoget Get ontology term(s)
ontogetcommon Get common ancestor for terms
ontogetdown Get ontology term(s) by parent id
ontogetobsolete Get ontology ontology terms
ontogetroot Get ontology root terms by child identifier
ontogetsibs Get ontology term(s) by id with common parent
ontogetup Get ontology term(s) by id of child
ontoisobsolete Report whether an ontology term id is obsolete
ontotext Get ontology term(s) original full text

Author(s)

Peter Rice
European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK

Please report all bugs to the EMBOSS bug team (emboss-bug © emboss.open-bio.org) not to the original author.

History

Target users

This program is intended to be used by everyone and everything, from naive users to embedded scripts.

Comments

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