Help:WikiPathways Webservice/API

Get a list of all available organisms.

Example: http://webservice.wikipathways.org/listOrganisms

Get a list of all available pathways.

Example: http://webservice.wikipathways.org/listPathways

Arguments:

• string organism
  • Only return pathways for this organism (optional).

Download the pathway from WikiPathways.

Example: http://webservice.wikipathways.org/getPathway?pwId=WP4&revision=40020

Arguments:

• string pwId
  • The pathway identifier.

• integer revision
  • The revision number of the pathway (use '0' for most recent version).

Get some general info about the pathway, such as the name, species, without downloading the GPML.

Example: http://webservice.wikipathways.org/getPathwayInfo?pwId=WP4

Arguments:

• string pwId
  • The pathway identifier.

Get the revision history of a pathway.

Example: http://webservice.wikipathways.org/getPathwayHistory?pwId=WP4&timestamp=20110101000000

Arguments:

• string pwId
  • The pathway identifier.

• string timestamp
  • Limit the results by date, only history items after the given timestamp will be included.

Get the recently changed pathways.

Note: the recent changes table only retains items for a limited time (2 months), so there is no guarantee that you will get all changes when the timestamp points to a date that is more than 2 months in the past.

Example: http://webservice.wikipathways.org/getRecentChanges?timestamp=20110101000000

Arguments:

• string timestamp
  • Only get changes from after this time. Timestamp format: yyyymmddMMHHSS.

Start a logged in session, using an existing WikiPathways account. This function will return an authentication code that can be used to excecute methods that need authentication (e.g. updatePathway).

Arguments:

• string name
  • The username of the WikiPathways account.

• string pass
  • The password of the WikiPathways account.

Download a pathway in the specified file format.

Example: http://webservice.wikipathways.org/index.php?fileType=gpml&pwId=WP4&revision=0&method=getPathwayAs

Arguments:

• string fileType
  • Download a pathway in the specified file format.
• gpml
• png
• svg
• pdf
• txt
• pwf
• owl (for BioPAX level 3)

See the download page for an explanation of these file formats.

• string pwId
  • The pathway identifier.

• integer revision
  • The revision number of the pathway (use '0' for most recent version).

Note: This method could not be exposed through our REST interface. So, for REST access use this syntax instead: http://webservice.wikipathways.org/index.php?fileType=png&pwId=WP4&revision=0&method=getPathwayAs

Update a pathway on the wiki with the given GPML code.

Note: To create/modify pathways via the web service, you need to have an account with web service write permissions. Please contact us to request write access for the web service.

Arguments:

• string pwId
  • The pathway identifier.

• string description
  • A description of the modifications.

• string gpml
  • The updated GPML code.

• integer revision
  • The revision number of the version this GPML code was based on. This is used to prevent edit conflicts in case another client edited the pathway after this client downloaded it.

• string auth
  • The authentication info.

• string username
  • The username.

Create a new pathway on the wiki with the given GPML code.

Note: To create/modify pathways via the web service, you need to have an account with web service write permissions. Please contact us to request write access for the web service.

Arguments:

• string gpml
  • The GPML code.

• string auth
  • The authentication info.

• string username
  • The username.

Find pathways using a textual search on the description and text labels of the pathway objects. The query syntax offers several options:

• Combine terms with AND and OR. Combining terms with a space is equal to using OR ('p53 OR apoptosis' gives the same result as 'p53 apoptosis').
• Group terms with parentheses, e.g. '(apoptosis OR mapk) AND p53'
• You can use wildcards * and ?. * searches for one or more characters, ? searchers for only one character.
• Use quotes to escape special characters. E.g. '"apoptosis*"' will include the * in the search and not use it as wildcard.

Example: http://webservice.wikipathways.org/findPathwaysByText?query=apoptosis

Arguments:

• string query
  • The search query (e.g. 'apoptosis' or 'p53').

• string species
  • The species to limit the search to (leave blank to search on all species).

Find pathways by searching on the external references of DataNodes (gene/protein/metabolite identifiers). You can specify multiple ids and codes parameters to query for multiple xrefs at once. In that case, the number of ids and codes parameters should match, they will be paired to form xrefs, e.g.: http://www.wikipathways.org/wpi/webservice/webservice.php/findPathwaysByXref?ids=1234&ids=ENSG00000130164&codes=L&codes=En

Example: http://webservice.wikipathways.org/findPathwaysByXref?ids=1234&codes=L

Arguments:

• array of string ids
  • One or more DataNode identifier(s) (e.g. 'P45985').

• array of string codes
  • One or more code(s) of the database system to limit the search to. See this page for an overview of available system codes. If you supply multiple codes, the number of codes needs to equal the number of ids supplied. If you supply multiple ids and only one code, this code will be used for all ids.

Find interactions defined in WikiPathways pathways.

Example: http://webservice.wikipathways.org/findInteractions?query=P53

Arguments:

• string query
  • The name of an entity to find interactions for (e.g. 'P53')

Apply a curation tag to a pahtway. This operation will overwrite any existing tag with the same name.

Note: To create/modify pathways via the web service, you need to have an account with web service write permissions. Please contact us to request write access for the web service.

Arguments:

• string pwId
  • The pathway identifier.

• string tagName
  • The name of the tag to apply.

• string tagText
  • The tag text (optional).

• integer revision
  • The revision this tag applies to.

• string auth
  • The authentication info.

• string username
  • The username.

Remove a curation tag from a pathway.

Note: To create/modify pathways via the web service, you need to have an account with web service write permissions. Please contact us to request write access for the web service.

Arguments:

• string pwId
  • The pathway identifier.

• string tagName
  • The name of the tag to remove.

• string auth
  • The authentication info.

• string username
  • The username.

Get all curation tags for the given pathway.

Example: http://webservice.wikipathways.org/getCurationTags?pwId=WP4

Arguments:

• string pwId
  • The pathway identifier.

Get all curation tags for the given tag name. Use this method if you want to find all pathways that are tagged with a specific curation tag.

Example: http://webservice.wikipathways.org/getCurationTagsByName?tagName=Curation:FeaturedPathway

Arguments:

• string tagName
  • The tag name (see Special:SpecialCurationTags for an overview of available tag names).

Get a colored image version of the pathway.

Arguments:

• string pwId
  • The pathway identifier.

• integer revision
  • The revision number of the pathway (use '0' for most recent version).

• array of string graphId
  • An array with GraphIds of the objects to color.

• array of string color
  • An array with colors of the objects (should be the same length as graphId).

Colors should be encoded as a hexadecimal number, e.g. FF0000 for red).

• string fileType
  • The image type (One of 'svg', 'pdf' or 'png').

Get a list of external references on the pathway (gene, protein or metabolite ids), translated to the given database system.

Example: http://webservice.wikipathways.org/getXrefList?pwId=WP4&code=S

Arguments:

• string pwId
  • The pathway identifier.

• string code
  • The code of the system to translate to (e.g. 'S' for UniProt).

Find pathways by their literature references.

Example: http://webservice.wikipathways.org/findPathwaysByLiterature?query=18651794

Arguments:

• string query
  • The query, can be a pubmed id, author name or title keyword.

Add a specific ontology tag to a given pathway.

Arguments:

• string pwId
  • The pathway identifier

• string term
  • The ontology term

• string termId
  • The ontology term identifier

• string auth
  • The authentication info.

• string user
  • The username of the WikiPathways account

Remove a specific ontology tag to a given pathway.

Arguments:

• string pwId
  • The pathway identifier

• string termId
  • The ontology term identifier

• string auth
  • The authentication info.

• string user
  • The username of the WikiPathways account

Get ontology terms for a pathway

Example: http://webservice.wikipathways.org/getOntologyTermsByPathway?pwId=WP4

Arguments:

• string pwId
  • The pathway identifier

Get a list of pathways tagged with a given ontology term.

Example: http://webservice.wikipathways.org/getPathwaysByOntologyTerm?term=DOID:344

Arguments:

• string term
  • The ontology term identifier.

Get a list of pathways tagged with any ontology term that is the child of the given Ontology term.

Example: http://webservice.wikipathways.org/getPathwaysByParentOntologyTerm?term=DOID:344

Arguments:

• string term
  • The ontology term identifier.

Get WP username by ORCID id.

Arguments:

• string orcid
  • The ORCID identifier.

Internal identifier for datanodes used to define graph model in GPML. The GraphID is a randomly generated hexidecimal. See sample GPML below: