Calculate the information content for each ontology term

this function will calculate the information content of each provided term based on a list of ancestors, which is a named list of terms with ancestor identifiers as their values. Can be calculated using get_ontology_ancestry(). The information content is calculated as -log2(number descendant/total terms in the ontology). More information can be found here.

Usage

calculate_information_content(ancestor_list)

Arguments

ancestor_list

List. Named list of terms with ancestor identifiers as their values

Value

A named list of each term and their information content as values.