NAME

MOBY::OntologyServer - A way for MOBY Central to query the object, service, namespace, and relationship ontologies

SYNOPSIS

use MOBY::OntologyServer;
my $OS = MOBY::OntologyServer->new(ontology => "object");

my ($success, $message, $existingURI) = $OS->objectExists(term => "Object");

if ($success){
    print "object exists and it has the LSID $existingURI\n";
} else {
   print "object does not exist; additional message from server: $message\n";
}

DESCRIPTION

Swappable interface to ontologies. It should deal with LSID's 100% of the time, and also deal with MOBY-specific common names for objects, services, namespaces, and relationship types.

AUTHORS

Mark Wilkinson (markw@illuminae.com)

BioMOBY Project: http://www.biomoby.org

METHODS

new

Title     :	new
Usage     :	my $OS = MOBY::OntologyServer->new(%args)
Function  :	
Returns   :	MOBY::OntologyServer object
Args      :    ontology => [object || service || namespace || relationship]
               database => mysql databasename that holds the ontologies
               host =>  mysql hostname
               username => mysql username
               password => mysql password
               port => mysql port
               dbh => pre-existing database handle to a mysql database

objectExists

moby:newterm will return (0, $message, $MOBYLSID)
newterm will return (0, $message, $MOBYLSID
oldterm will return (1, $message, undef)
newLSID will return (0, $desc, $lsid)

objectInfo

serviceInfo

createObject

retrieveObject

deprecateObject

deleteObject

relationshipExists

addObjectRelationship

addServiceRelationship

serviceExists

createServiceType

deleteServiceType

namespaceExists

createNamespace

deleteNamespace

retrieveAllServiceTypes

retrieveAllNamespaceTypes

retrieveAllObjectClasses

getObjectCommonName

getNamespaceCommonName

getServiceCommonName

getServiceURI

getObjectURI

getNamespaceURI

getRelationshipURI

consumes ontology (object/service) consumes relationship term as term or LSID

getRelationshipTypes

RelationshipsDEPRECATED

Relationships

setURI

traverseDAG