loading-networks.Rmd

# WikiPathways

[WikiPathways](https://www.wikipathways.org/) is a collaborative wiki platform with manually pathway models. 
It currently covers over 2,600 pathways in 25 species-specific collections.

- To search WikiPathways, load [rWikiPathways](https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/rWikiPathways.html) and call the `findPathwayByText` function with your search terms (here we use 'statin' as the term)

```{r}
library(rWikiPathways)
statin.pathways <- findPathwaysByText('statin')
```

- WikiPathways search results are displayed as a list of all available pathway models matching the search term.

```{r}
print(statin.pathways)
```

- To restrict the results to a specific specues, use the Only selector at the top and pick a species from the drop-down.



- Pathway models will open with the original pathway layout by default. To open the pathway as a network, select the Import as Network option.