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. 2018 Feb 19;19(Suppl 1):42. doi: 10.1186/s12859-018-2016-6

Table 2.

REST API arguments and parameters supported by BRCA-Pathway

arg1 arg2 arg3 Parameters Description
landscape - - type=[JSON | LIST]
fields=[KEGGPathway_update
| KEGGPathways
| Pathway_Pathway_Membership KEGG pathways, TCGA-
| TCGAGenes BRCA data status
| TCGA_BRCA_Patients
| TCGA_BRCA_update
| TFTG_relation | driver_genes]
search - - keyword
type=[ JSON | LIST ] Get search result by
fields=[ keyword keyword.
| gene_labels Gene or pathway names
| rate with input_type.
| pathID | pathname ]
genes (pathIDs, - type=[ JSON | LIST ]
sep=“+”) count fields=[ pathID Retrieve pathways
| gene_symbol information.
| pathname related_pathways operation
| geneID supported.
| count** ]
**given only arg3 related_pathways
pathways (pathIDs, - type=[ JSON | LIST ]
sep=“+”) related_pathways fields=[ pathID | pathname Retrieve pathways
| category_level2_id information.
| description related_pathways operation
| related_pathID**] supported.
**given only arg3 related_pathways
TCGA-BRCA patient_list - type=[ JSON | LIST ]
patient_count - ** arg2 patient_list
(pathIDs, (given pathIDs,) fields=[patient_barcode] Retrieve pathways and
sep=“+”) fold_change TCGA-BRCA omics data.
mutation ** arg2 patient_count Gene expression with
CNV fields=[count] fold_change value,
mutation with the number
** arg3 fold_change of patients having
fields=[geneID |gene_symbol mutation, and CNV with
| exp_select GISTIC2 result range from
| exp_tumor -2 to 2.
| exp_normal Each omics result will be
| fc_select_tumor | fc_select_normal ] given by gene level
aggregating patients
group omics data
** arg3 mutation patient_list,
fields=[ geneID | gene_symbol patient_count operation
|count ] supported.
** arg3 CNV
fields=[geneID | gene_symbol
| cnv_pos
| cnv_zero
| cnv_neg ]
** And patient_options
described_above