uk.ac.ebi.microarray.zooma.service
Interface ZoomaService

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicZoomaService

public interface ZoomaService

A service interface that generates ZOOMA mappings between text values and ontology terms. This interface is used within the ZOOMA web application, but could be implemented to provide an additional command line option for ZOOMA.

Author:

Tony Burdett

Method Summary

net.sf.json.JSONObject

generateMappings(java.lang.String value) Generates a JSON object describing the mappings between the supplied value and ontology terms.

Method Detail

generateMappings

net.sf.json.JSONObject generateMappings(java.lang.String value)
                                        throws BadOutcomeException

Generates a JSON object describing the mappings between the supplied value and ontology terms.

Parameters:

value - the text value to map

Returns:

a JSON object describing the known mappings

Throws:

BadOutcomeException - if the outcome could not be generated