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WikiPathways can be accessed programmatically through a [[wikipedia:Web_service#Service-oriented_architecture|SOAP web service]]. Web services provide powerful means to query, access and interact with the pathway content at WikiPathways.  
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WikiPathways can be accessed programmatically through a REST web service. These services provide powerful means to query, access and interact with the pathway content at WikiPathways.  
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== Showcase ==
 
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== Test Drive ==
 
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Take the WikiPathways web service for a full-featured test drive:
 
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# Install the free testing tool, [http://www.soapui.org/ SoapUI] ''(web start version is also available)''.
 
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# Load [http://www.wikipathways.org/wpi/webservice/webservice.php?wsdl our WSDL file].
 
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See the [[{{FULLPAGENAME}}/API|API reference]] page for a list of available web service functions and data structures.
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See the [https://webservice.wikipathways.org Swagger] page for a list of available web service functions and data structures.
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You can get a high-level API to the WikiPathways web service here: [http://svn.bigcat.unimaas.nl/pathvisio/trunk/tools/wikipathways-client source] [http://pathvisio.org/data/wikipathways-client-bin.zip compiled binary]
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You can get a high-level API to the WikiPathways web service here: [http://developers.pathvisio.org/browser/trunk/modules/org.wikipathways.client source] [http://developers.pathvisio.org/data/releases compiled binaries] (choose the most recent wikipathways_client_bin-*).
=== Working with GPML ===
=== Working with GPML ===
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The pathways on WikiPathways are stored in the GPML format. This is an XML format and can be processed in any programming language. See [http://www.pathvisio.org/EverythingGPML here] for the GPML specification. If you are developing in Java, we recommend using our [[#Java libraries|Java libraries]].
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The pathways on WikiPathways are stored in the GPML format. This is an XML format and can be processed in any programming language. See [http://developers.pathvisio.org/wiki/EverythingGpml here] for the GPML specification. If you are developing in Java, we recommend using our [[#Java libraries|Java libraries]].
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=== SOAP libraries ===
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For most programming languages, libraries exist to make working with SOAP web service easier. Below is a short list of SOAP libraries for popular programming languages that might help you work with the WikiPathways web service.
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** [http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/index.html Apache Axis]
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** [http://www.soaplite.com/ SOAP::Lite]
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** [http://nl.php.net/soap SOAP] (official php soap library)
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** [http://phpsoaptoolkit.sourceforge.net/phpsoap/ PHP-SOAP]
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** [http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/ SOAPpy]
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** [http://trac.optio.webfactional.com/ soaplib]
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** [http://www.omegahat.org/SSOAP/ SSOAP]
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== Example Code ==
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Below you find some small example scripts in various languages that may help to get you started.
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=== Java ===
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Use the [[#Java libraries|wikipathways-client and PathVisio libraries]] to access the WikiPathways web service from Java. Below is a short example program in Java.
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package org.pathvisio.wikipathways;
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import java.io.File;
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import java.net.URL;
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import org.pathvisio.model.DataSource;
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import org.pathvisio.model.ObjectType;
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import org.pathvisio.model.Pathway;
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import org.pathvisio.model.PathwayElement;
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import org.pathvisio.model.Xref;
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import org.pathvisio.wikipathways.webservice.WSPathway;
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import org.pathvisio.wikipathways.webservice.WSPathwayInfo;
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import org.pathvisio.wikipathways.webservice.WSSearchResult;
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public class Example {
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public static void main(String[] args) {
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try {
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//Create a client to the WikiPathways web service
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WikiPathwaysClient client = new WikiPathwaysClient(
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new URL("http://www.wikipathways.org/wpi/webservice/webservice.php")
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//Find a pathway by affymetrix probeset
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Xref affy = new Xref("201746_at", DataSource.AFFY);
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System.out.println("Searching for pathways with Affymetrix probeset " + affy);
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WSSearchResult[] result = client.findPathwaysByXref(affy);
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for(WSSearchResult r : result) {
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System.out.println("Found pathway: " + r.getName() + " (" + r.getSpecies() + ")");
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}
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//Download a pathway from WikiPathways
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WSPathway wsPathway = client.getPathway("WP274");
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System.out.println("Downloaded pathway " + wsPathway.getName() +
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", revision " + wsPathway.getRevision());
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Pathway pathway = WikiPathwaysClient.toPathway(wsPathway);
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//Get all genes, proteins and metabolites for a pathway
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for(PathwayElement pwElm : pathway.getDataObjects()) {
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//Only take elements with type DATANODE (genes, proteins, metabolites)
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if(pwElm.getObjectType() == ObjectType.DATANODE) {
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System.out.println(pwElm.getTextLabel());
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System.out.println("\t" + pwElm.getXref());
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System.out.println("\t" + pwElm.getDataNodeType());
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pathway.writeToXml(new File(wsPathway.getName() + ".gpml"), true);
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WSPathwayInfo[] pathwayList = client.listPathways();
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System.out.println("Pathway:");
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System.out.println("\tIdentifier:\t" + pathwayInfo.getId());
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System.out.println("\tName:\t" + pathwayInfo.getName());
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System.out.println("\tOrganism:\t" + pathwayInfo.getSpecies());
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This is a short example of a few ways to interact with the WikiPathways web service in Perl.
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#!perl -w
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use strict;
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# Load module
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use SOAP::Lite;
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#SOAP::Lite->import(+trace => qw(debug));
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my $wp_soap = SOAP::Lite
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        ->proxy('http://www.wikipathways.org/wpi/webservice/webservice.php')
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        ->uri('http://www.wikipathways.org/webservice')
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        ->on_fault(sub {
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                if(ref($res) eq '') {
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my @orgList = $wp_soap->listOrganisms()->paramsout;
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unshift(@orgList, $wp_soap->listOrganisms()->result); #add first result to list
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print "listOrganisms: @orgList\n";
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my $pathwayInfo =  $wp_soap->getPathwayInfo($pwId)->result;
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print "\ngetPathwayInfo(pwId=WP274):\n";
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foreach my $key (keys %{$pathwayInfo}) {
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my @foundPathwayRefList = $wp_soap->findPathwaysByXref($argsXrefData)->paramsout;
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url = 'http://www.wikipathways.org/wpi/webservice/webservice.php'
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server = SOAPProxy(url, namespace)
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print '\nPathways containing the gene ID "%s" for system code "%s"' % (gi,sc)
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printOutput(probeset_containing)
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Using the [http://www.omegahat.org/SSOAP/ SSOAP] package in [http://www.r-project.org R], you can retrieve pathway information from the WikiPathways web service and use it in your R scripts. Below are a few code snippets that show you how to use SSOAP with the WikiPathways web service. See [[{{FULLPAGENAME}}/Gene set enrichment in R|this page]] for a more extensive example, where we perform gene set enrichment on WikiPathways pathways using the [http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.4/bioc/html/PGSEA.html PGSEA library].
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* Perl: Perl API client with code examples at [https://github.com/wikipathways/wikipathways-api-client-perl github].
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* Php: Example scripts at [https://github.com/wikipathways/scripts/ github].
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Kelder T, Pico AR, Hanspers K, van Iersel MP, Evelo C, Conklin BR. (2009) '''Mining Biological Pathways Using WikiPathways Web Services.''' PLoS ONE 4(7): [http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0006447 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006447]
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Current revision

Web Services for WikiPathways

WikiPathways can be accessed programmatically through a REST web service. These services provide powerful means to query, access and interact with the pathway content at WikiPathways.

Contents

API Reference

See the Swagger page for a list of available web service functions and data structures.

Java libraries

You can get a high-level API to the WikiPathways web service here: source compiled binaries (choose the most recent wikipathways_client_bin-*).

Working with GPML

The pathways on WikiPathways are stored in the GPML format. This is an XML format and can be processed in any programming language. See here for the GPML specification. If you are developing in Java, we recommend using our Java libraries.

Libraries

Below is a short list of libraries for popular programming languages that might help you work with the WikiPathways web service.

  • R: The rWikiPathways package with vignettes at bioconductor.
  • Java: Java API client with code examples at github.
  • Perl: Perl API client with code examples at github.
  • Php: Example scripts at github.
  • Python: Python API client with code examples at github.

Other Examples

Groovy

This blog post contains an example of how to use the WikiPathways webservice in Groovy.

How to cite

Kelder T, Pico AR, Hanspers K, van Iersel MP, Evelo C, Conklin BR. (2009) Mining Biological Pathways Using WikiPathways Web Services. PLoS ONE 4(7): doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006447

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