% ontogetroot edam:1234 
Get ontology root terms by child identifier
Obo output file [1234.obo]: 

Get ontology root terms by child identifier
Version: EMBOSS:6.6.0.0

   Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers:
  [-oboterms]          obo        Obo term filename and optional format, or
                                  reference (input query)
  [-outfile]           outobo     [*.ontogetroot] Output ontology term file
                                  name

   Additional (Optional) qualifiers:
   -obsolete           boolean    [N] The default behaviour is to not use or
                                  return obsolete terms. This option if set
                                  will include all terms.

   Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers: (none)
   Associated qualifiers:

   "-oboterms" associated qualifiers
   -iformat1           string     Input obo format
   -iquery1            string     Input query fields or ID list
   -ioffset1           integer    Input start position offset
   -idbname1           string     User-provided database name

   "-outfile" associated qualifiers
   -odirectory2        string     Output directory
   -oformat2           string     Ontology term output format

   General qualifiers:
   -auto               boolean    Turn off prompts
   -stdout             boolean    Write first file to standard output
   -filter             boolean    Read first file from standard input, write
                                  first file to standard output
   -options            boolean    Prompt for standard and additional values
   -debug              boolean    Write debug output to program.dbg
   -verbose            boolean    Report some/full command line options
   -help               boolean    Report command line options and exit. More
                                  information on associated and general
                                  qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose
   -warning            boolean    Report warnings
   -error              boolean    Report errors
   -fatal              boolean    Report fatal errors
   -die                boolean    Report dying program messages
   -version            boolean    Report version number and exit

[Term]
id: EDAM_data:1234
name: Sequence set (nucleic acid)
namespace: data
def: Any collection of multiple nucleotide sequences and associated metadata that do not (typically) correspond to common sequence database records or database entries.
subset: bioinformatics
subset: data
subset: edam
created_in: "beta12orEarlier"
is_a: EDAM_data:0850 ! Sequence set
is_a: EDAM_data:2977 ! Nucleic acid sequence

[Term]
id: EDAM_data:0006
name: Data
namespace: data
def: Information, represented in an information artefact (data record) that is 'understandable' by dedicated computational tools that can use the data as input or produce it as output.
subset: bioinformatics
subset: data
subset: edam
synonym: "Continuant" BROAD []
synonym: "Data record" EXACT []
synonym: "Data set" NARROW []
synonym: "WSIO_data:002" EXACT []
synonym: "Datum" NARROW []
synonym: "DigitalEntity" RELATED []
synonym: "IAO:0000027" RELATED []
synonym: "IAO:0000030" RELATED []
synonym: "Perpetuant" RELATED []
synonym: "SIO:000069" RELATED []
synonym: "SIO:000088" RELATED []
created_in: "beta12orEarlier"
disjoint_from: EDAM_format:1915 ! Format
disjoint_from: EDAM_operation:0004 ! Operation
disjoint_from: EDAM_topic:0003 ! Topic