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. 2015 Feb 23;11(2):e1004085. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004085

Fig 2. Plugin extension and installation system of PathVisio 3.

Fig 2

The plugin repository stores all plugin files and their dependencies. The RepoIndex library is used to create a repository.xml file which contains the dependency indexes of all plugins. Metadata about plugins is stored in the PathVisio plugin database which is then exported into a pathvisio.xml file. The PathVisio 3 plugin manager retrieves data from both files to facilitate the installation of plugins in PathVisio 3.