\name{getTermRelations} \alias{getTermRelations} \title{Returns set of terms that are in defined relation with term of interest} \description{ Returns set of terms that are in defined relation with the term of interest } \usage{ getTermRelations(object1,object2,relation) } \arguments{ \item{object1}{instance of the \code{\linkS4class{Ontology}} class} \item{object2}{instance of the \code{\linkS4class{OntologyTerm}} class} \item{relation}{relation name} } \value{ Returns set of ontology term's synonymss if there are some } \references{ Adamusiak T, Burdett T, van der Velde K J, Abeygunawardena N, Antonakaki D, Parkinson H and Swertz M: OntoCAT -- a simpler way to access ontology resources. \emph{Available from Nature Precedings} \url{http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2010.4666.1} (2010) Malone J, Holloway E, Adamusiak T, Kapushesky M, Zheng J, Kolesnikov N, Zhukova A, Brazma A, Parkinson H: Modeling Sample Variables with an Experimental Factor Ontology. \emph{Bioinformatics} 2010, \bold{26}(8):1112--1118 Experimental Factor Ontology \url{http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo} Ontology Common API Tasks java library \url{http://www.ontocat.org} Java sources and javadocs: \url{http://sourceforge.net/projects/ontocat/files/} } \author{Natalja Kurbatova} \seealso{\code{\linkS4class{Ontology}} and \code{\linkS4class{OntologyTerm}}} \examples{ efo <- getEFO() term <- getTermById(efo,"EFO_0000827") getTermRelations(efo,term,"has_part") }