Conversion#

Conversion API provides access to MINERVA’s ability convert between different systems biology network formats and to export of layouts to different graphical formats.

Conversion to systems biology formats#

List available formats#

• URL: /convert/
• Method: GET or POST
• Example:
• Output: List of input and output format identifiers which can be used as values for the sourceFormat and targetFormat parameters in other convert API calls

curl -X GET --cookie "MINERVA_AUTH_TOKEN=xxxxxxxx" https://minerva-dev.lcsb.uni.lu/minerva/api/convert/

Convert network from an input format to an output format#

• URL: /convert/{sourceFormat}:{targetFormat}/
• Method: POST
• Parameters:
  • sourceFormat - input format (list of available formats be obtained from the /convert/ API)
  • targetFormat - input format (list of available formats be obtained from the /convert/ API)
• Body: the input file to be converted
• Example:

curl -X POST --cookie "MINERVA_AUTH_TOKEN=xxxxxxxx" --data-binary @cell_designer.xml \
-H "Content-Type: text/plain" https://minerva-dev.lcsb.uni.lu/minerva/api/convert/CellDesigner_SBML:SBML

Conversion to image#

List available formats#

• URL: /convert/image/
• Method: GET or POST
• Output: List of input and output format identifiers which can be used as values for the sourceFormat and targetFormat parameters in other convert API calls
• Example:

curl -X GET --cookie "MINERVA_AUTH_TOKEN=xxxxxxxx" \
 https://minerva-dev.lcsb.uni.lu/minerva/api/convert/image/

Convert network from an input format to an output image#

• URL: /convert/image/{sourceFormat}:{targetFormat}/
• Method: POST
• Parameters:
  • sourceFormat - input format (list of available formats be obtained from the /convert/image/ API)
  • targetFormat - input format (list of available formats be obtained from the /convert/image/ API)
• Body: the input file to be converted
• Example:

curl -X POST --cookie "MINERVA_AUTH_TOKEN=xxxxxxxx" --data-binary @cell_designer.xml \
-H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
https://minerva-dev.lcsb.uni.lu/minerva/api/convert/image/CellDesigner_SBML:svg