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<h2>Getting a term by its features (e.g. synonyms, xref)</h2>
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<li><a href="#1">Get a term by its name or any of its synonyms.</a></li>
<li><a href="#2">Get a term by one of its xref's.</a></li>
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<li> <b><a name="1">Get a term by its name or any of its synonyms:</a></b>
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use OBO::Parser::OBOParser;
my $my_parser = OBO::Parser::OBOParser->new();
my $ontology = $my_parser->work("my_obo_ontology.obo");
my $synonym = "cell-cycle";
my $interesting_term = $ontology->get_term_by_name_or_synonym($synonym);
print "The name of the term is: ", $interesting_term->name();
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<li> <b><a name="2">Get a term by one of its xref's:</a></b>
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use OBO::Parser::OBOParser;
my $my_parser = OBO::Parser::OBOParser->new();
my $ontology = $my_parser->work("my_obo_ontology.obo");
my $db = "Reactome";
my $acc = "12345";
my $interesting_term = $ontology->get_term_by_xref($db, $acc);
print "The name of the term is: ", $interesting_term->name();
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