title: BridgeDb app: unifying identifier mapping services for Cytoscape.
abstract: The BridgeDb app for Cytoscape allows users to map and annotate identifiers of genes, proteins and metabolites in the context of biological networks. The app greatly simplifies the identifier mapping process in Cytoscape by providing a unified interface to different mapping resources and services. The app also provides a programming interface via Cytoscape Commands that can be utilized for identifier mapping by other Cytoscape apps. In this article we provide a technical guide to the BridgeDb app for mapping identifiers in Cytoscape.
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authors.affiliation: Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science,C.S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Kravis Center for Molecular Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA ; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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authors.lastname: Schultz
authors.affiliation: Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: R Pico
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