STRING · Example Payload

Ppi Enrichment

Example: PPI enrichment test for a set of human proteins to check whether their interactions are more than expected by chance

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Ppi Enrichment is an example object payload from STRING, with 3 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

descriptionrequestresponse

Example Payload

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{
  "description": "Example: PPI enrichment test for a set of human proteins to check whether their interactions are more than expected by chance",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://string-db.org/api/json/ppi_enrichment",
    "parameters": {
      "identifiers": "9606.ENSP00000269305%0d9606.ENSP00000366955%0d9606.ENSP00000380152%0d9606.ENSP00000083083",
      "species": 9606,
      "required_score": 400,
      "network_type": "functional",
      "caller_identity": "example_pipeline"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "number_of_nodes": 4,
    "number_of_edges": 6,
    "average_node_degree": 3.0,
    "local_clustering_coefficient": 1.0,
    "expected_number_of_edges": 0.18,
    "p_value": 1.0e-6
  }
}

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