Cytoscape Container REST Service

Provides formatted and readily callable REST service for several popular Cytoscape Container algorithms.

This service runs using an embedded Jetty server and is invoked from the command line.

Requirements

• MacOS, Rocky Linux 8+, Ubuntu 20+, and most other Linux distributions should work
• Java 17+ (jdk to build)
• Make (to build)
• Cytoscape Container REST Model
• Maven 3.6 or higher (to build)
• Docker (to run algorithms)

Building Cytoscape Container REST Service

Commands build Cytoscape Container REST Service assuming machine has Git command line tools installed and above Java modules have been installed.

# In lieu of git one can just download repo and unzip it
git clone https://github.com/cytoscape/cytocontainer-rest-server.git

cd cytocontainer-rest-server
mvn clean test install

The above command will create a jar file under target/ named
cytocontainer-rest-<VERSION>-jar-with-dependencies.jar that is a command line application

Running Cytoscape Container REST Service locally

TODO