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Cytoscape Automation: empowering workflow-based network analysis

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Otasek, David, Morris, John H., Bouças, Jorge, Pico, Alexander R., Demchak, Barry·2019·Genome Biology

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Cytoscape is one of the most successful network biology analysis and visualization tools, but because of its interactive nature, its role in creating reproducible, scalable, and novel workflows has been limited. We describe Cytoscape Automation (CA), which marries Cytoscape to highly productive workflow systems, for example, Python/R in Jupyter/RStudio. We expose over 270 Cytoscape core functions and 34 Cytoscape apps as REST-callable functions with standardized JSON interfaces backed by Swagger documentation. Independent projects to create and publish Python/R native CA interface libraries have reached an advanced stage, and a number of automation workflows are already published.

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Authors
Otasek, D., Morris, J. H., Bouças, J., Pico, A. R., & Demchak, B.
Venue
Genome Biology
Published
2019-09-02
Volume
20
Issue
1
Pages
185-185
ISSN
  • 1465-6906 (ISSN-L)
  • 1474-760X
OpenAlex
W2970534831
Cited by
1,791
References
2
FWCI
45.83
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
gold
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Funders
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P41 GM103504)
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (R01 HG009979)

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