Contributor
Yusuf Ziya Özgül

Broader use of pathway views in cBioPortal


Mentors
Onur Sumer, Ugur Dogrusoz
Organization
cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics
Technologies
javascript, reactjs, Cytoscape.js, ShareDB
Topics
web, bioinformatics, Graph Visualization
The goal of this project is to improve the integration of PathwayMapper into cBioPortal as well as enhancing the full-blown, stand-alone editor version as follows. To do this, we will improve the integration of PathwayMapper viewer in cBioPortal and improve PathwayMapper editor. For the first problem, we have 3 subtasks: adding Pathways tab to Comparison Page in cBioPortal, investigating alternative or better ranking schemes for Pathways and resolving the issues and bugs in cBioPortal. To improve PathwayMapper editor, we have 6 subtasks: revisiting overall architecture of PathwayMapper to properly address different views in different contexts, integration of expand-collapse and hide-show operations for complexity management, incorporation of filtering and highlighting capabilities ,fixing the issues in ShareDB in collaborative mode editor, upgrading all third party libraries and resolving issues/bugs. Throgh GSoC, we will focus on these issues and solve them to improve the pathway views in cBioPortal.