Barry Demchak

Yingyao Zhou @ novartis requested that CyREST be able to send .CYS file to client (just as PNG/PDF)

Cookbook: Use a dataframe before calling load_table_data()

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When I import a .soft-based table, I first read the .soft into a dataframe and then call py4cytsocape.load_table_data(). This works well, but requires a little surgery on the dataframe. This...

Cookbook: create visual property map

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While creating visual property maps is straight forward, choosing the name of the virtual property is not. It would be helpful to have a cookbook item showing how to build...

If I create a group (using create_group) and then add all nodes and edges to the group (using add_to_group), the group should contain all nodes and edges *and* the id...

Both commands_api() and cyrest_api() open a browser window, which then populate via calls back into Cytoscape. If other CyREST calls are made before the browser window is complete, Cytoscape gets...

There are a number of functions that contain checks for a node or edge list being contained within a network. For very large networks and very large lists, this becomes...

Column names containing "/" fail on some calls

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When a column name is used as part of a URL in a CyREST call, and the column name contains "/", the URL is mis-formed. To see this, put "/"...

Cookbook: pass full path name in commands_post()

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I used p4c.commands_post() to import a network file that has source, target, and interaction columns that need identification. I could not use import_network_from_file() because it has no provisions for skipping...

We are starting to collect apps that are apparently old and unloved ... meaning they don't have editors that respond and have stopped working (e.g., Semascape). Rather than kick them...