[BioC] GO.db: how to get GO Term

[Martin Morgan]

Gordon K Smyth wrote:
> What is the recommended way to find the GO term that corresponds to a 
> given GO accession number?  I can do this:
> 
>   > library(GO.db)
>   > Term(as.list(GOTERM["GO:0000166"])[[1]])
>   [1] "nucleotide binding"

Not sure about 'recommended', but these

   Term(GOTERM[["GO:0000166"]])
   eapply(GOTERM[gids], Term)

seem a bit better

Martin

> 
> But this seems a bit inelegant, using as.list() and list subsetting as 
> an intermediaries both inside and outside of S4 generic functions.  And 
> it needs more work to generalise to multiple accession numbers.  Is 
> there something more direct?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> Gordon
> 
> -----------------------------------------------
> Associate Professor Gordon K Smyth,
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> Bioinformatics Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical 
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