I am exited to announce the release of a new Cytoscape
plugin--CyThesaurus, from a project of Google Summer of Code 2009.

CyThesaurus is a plugin for performing ID mapping/translation for
Cytoscape networks. In this version, the plugin supports translating
node attributes in networks from source ID types to the target ID
types and save the translated IDs in new attributes. The plugin
utilized a ID mapping Java API package, called BridgeDb [0]. It
supports mapping IDs using different resources including text files,
PGDB files, and several web services, such as BioMart, PICR and
Synergizer.

CyThesaurus plugin also provides ID mapping services for other
Cytoscape plugins. To consume the services, you can simply include the
CyThesaurusService package [1] in your plugin project and call methods
in the CyThesaurusServiceClient[2].

The plugin was tested to work with Cytoscape 2.6. It is downloadable
by Plugin Manager. The source code is available at [3]. A tutorial for
this plugin is available at [4]. More information about the plugin is
available at [5].

It is worth mentioning that a package supporting inter-plugin
communication in Cytoscape 2.6.x was developed in the project. To
support communication between plugins, you can include the
cytoscape-plugins-comm package [6] in your plugins and then passing
messages among them. The source code and Java doc for the package is
available at [7] and [8], respectively.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me at
j...@mail.mizzou.edu. Any feedback (bug report, feature request, ...)
would be highly welcome.

Project member:
Student: Jianjiong Gao
Mentor: David States, Alexander Pico and Martijn van Iersel .

Best Regards,
-Jianjiong Gao

[0] http://www.bridgedb.org
[1] http://chianti.ucsd.edu/svn/csplugins/trunk/soc/jgao/IDMappingService...
[2] http://chianti.ucsd.edu/svn/csplugins/trunk/soc/jgao/IDMappingService...
[3] http://chianti.ucsd.edu/svn/csplugins/trunk/soc/jgao/IDMapping/
[4] http://www.cytoscape.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/CyThesaurus_Plugin/ID_Mappi...
[5] http://www.cytoscape.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/CyThesaurus_Plugin
[6] http://chianti.ucsd.edu/svn/csplugins/trunk/soc/jgao/PluginsCommunica...
[7] http://chianti.ucsd.edu/svn/csplugins/trunk/soc/jgao/PluginsCommunica...
[8] http://web.missouri.edu/~jg722/GSoC/cytoscape-plugins-comm-javadoc/