Cytoscape 2.8.0 API

cytoscape.data.annotation
Class Annotation

java.lang.Object
  extended by cytoscape.data.annotation.Annotation
All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable

Deprecated. Use regular CyAttributes for annotation.

@Deprecated
public class Annotation
extends Object
implements Serializable

Store any number of classifications for named entities, each of which is from a specified species, and where the classifications are all terms from an ontology (a controlled vocabulary for some subject domain, expressed as a directed acyclic graph). For example:

This simple assignment of two classifications to one gene becomes richer when we refer to the ontology: in the KEGG ontology, these two terms belong to a tree, expressed linearly, and from the top (most general term) down as