uk.ac.ebi.microarray.zooma.hypothesis
Interface OntologyMappingHypothesisFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

TrackedHypothesisFactory

public interface OntologyMappingHypothesisFactory

A factory for OntologyMappingHypothesis objects.

Implementations of this interface may choose to have state. This means factories are not necessarily re-usable between different formulator subsystems or in multithreaded environments.

Author:

Tony Burdett

Method Summary

OntologyMappingHypothesis

generateHypothesis(Value value, OntologyMappingContext context, uk.ac.ebi.ontocat.OntologyTerm... ontologyTerms) Generates an ontology mapping hypothesis given a description, the term it may map to, and a context

Method Detail

generateHypothesis

OntologyMappingHypothesis generateHypothesis(Value value,
                                             OntologyMappingContext context,
                                             uk.ac.ebi.ontocat.OntologyTerm... ontologyTerms)

Generates an ontology mapping hypothesis given a description, the term it may map to, and a context

Parameters:

value - the text description that requires mapping

context - the mapping context in which this hypothesis is formed

ontologyTerms - the series of terms that can be mapped to in this hypothesis

Returns:

the generated hypothesis