Utility for converting ontology OBO files to a tab-delimited text file
The OBO Data Converter reads an Ontology file in the OBO format and converts the data to a tab-delimited text file. OBO files are described at https://owlcollab.github.io/oboformat/doc/GO.format.obo-1_2.html and are typically edited / managed using OBO-Edit: http://www.oboedit.org/
Syntax
OBODataConverter.exe
InputFilePath [/O:OutputFilePath] [/PK:Suffix] [/NoP] [/NoG] [/Def] [/StripQuotes] [/Com] [/NoObsolete]
The input file is the OBO file to convert
Optionally use /O to specify the output path If not provided the output file will have extension .txt or .txt.new
Use /PK to specify the string to append to the ontology term identifier when creating the primary key for the Term_PK column. By default uses /PK:MS1
By default the output file includes parent terms; remove them with /NoP By default the output file includes grandparent terms; remove them with /NoG Using /NoP auto-enables /NoG
By default the output file will not include the term definitions; include them with /Def
When using /Def, use /StripQuotes to look for definitions of the form
"Description of term" [Ontology:Source]
and only include the text between the double quotes as the definition
Using /StripQuotes auto-enables /Def
By default the output file will not include the term comments; include them with /Com
Use /NoObsolete to exclude obsolete terms
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Portions of this research were supported by the NIH National Center for Research Resources (Grant RR018522), the W.R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory (a national scientific user facility sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research and located at PNNL), and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/DHHS through interagency agreement Y1-AI-4894-01). PNNL is operated by Battelle Memorial Institute for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-76RL0 1830.
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