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. 2018 Jul 5;7:519. Originally published 2018 Apr 30. [Version 2] doi: 10.12688/f1000research.14612.2

Table 1. Application Programming Interface (API) of Cytoscape commands provided by eXamine.

Figure 1 shows an example workflow using the below commands.

Command Argument (type) Description
examine generate
groups
Generates eXamine groups from a given set of columns of the
node table
○ network (CyNetwork)
○ selectedGroupColumns (List)

○ useAllNodes (Boolean)
Network for which to generate the groups
Columns of the node table from which the groups will be
created (comma separated)
Indicates whether to use all nodes for group generation, or
only those nodes currently selected in Cytoscape
examine select
groups
Select groups to be visualized by eXamine
○ selectedGroup (List) Group identifiers to select (comma separated)
examine remove
groups
Removes all groups generated by eXamine
○ network (CyNetwork) Network from which to remove the groups
examine update
settings
Updates visualization settings
○ network (CyNetwork)
○ labelColumn (String)

○ urlColumn (String)

○ scoreColumn (String)

○ showScore (Boolean)

○ selectedGroupColumns (List)
Network to visualize
Column of the node table that contains the node labels

Column of the node table that contains URLs with additional
information about the nodes
Column that contains annotation enrichment scores

Indicates whether to show annotation enrichment scores

Group columns of the node table to show in the visualization
examine interact Shows the selected network and groups in an interactive
visualization window
examine export Generates an SVG file with a visualization of the selected
network and groups
○ path (String) Filename