getMinimumSubsumer {GOSim} | R Documentation

## Compute minimum subsumer of two GO terms.

### Description

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

### Usage

    getMinimumSubsumer(term1, term2)

### Arguments

`term1` | GO term 1
`term2` | GO term 2

### Details

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

### Value

GO term representing the minimum subsumer. If there is no minimum subsumer within the currently set GO category (e.g. because one of the GO terms does not exist), the result is the string "NA".

### Author(s)

Holger Froehlich

### References

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

### See Also

`getTermSim`, `getGOGraph`, `setOntology`

### Examples

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

[Package GOSim version 1.28.0 Index]