Help:WikiPathways Webservice/API

Get a list of all available organisms.

Get a list of all available pathways.

Download the pathway from WikiPathways.

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.

Arguments:

• string pwId
  • The pathway identifier.

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.

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.

Arguments:

• string fileType
  • Download a pathway in the specified file format.
• gpml
• png
• svg
• pdf
• txt
• pwf

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

• string pwId
  • The pathway identifier.

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 pass
  • 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.

Find pathways using a textual search on the description and text labels of the pathway objects.

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).

• string pass
  • 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.

Find pathways by searching on the external references of DataNodes (gene/protein/metabolite identifiers).

Arguments:

• string id
  • The DataNode identifier (e.g. 'P45985').

• string code
  • The code of the database system to limit the search to. Leave blank to search on all database systems. See this page for an overview of available system codes.

• string pass
  • 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.

Find pathways by searching on the external references of DataNodes (gene/protein/metabolite identifiers).

Arguments:

• string pwId
  • The pathway identifier.

• string pass
  • 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.

Container for pathway metadata, such as name, organism and url.

Fields:

• string id
  • The pathway identifier
• string name
  • The name of the pathway
• string species
  • The species (organism) of the pathway
• string revision
  • The revision number of the pathway ('0' can be used for the most recent revision)

Extends WSPathwayInfo.

Container for pathway metadata and content. This object inherits all fields from WSPathwayInfo and has one additional field:

Fields:

• string gpml
  • The content of the pathway (as GPML).

Container for authentication data for a logged in WikiPathways session.

Fields:

• string username
  • The username of a WikiPathways account
• string key
  • The authentication key of the session (can be obtained by calling the login function).

Container for a single search result.

Fields:

• double score
  • The score of the search result
• array of WSIndexField fields
  • An array of index fields that were returned with the search. The included fields may vary among different search functions.

Container for a single index field.

Fields:

• string name
  • The name of the index field.
• array of string values
  • An array with the value(s) of the field.