STRINGutils provides additional utilities for STRINGdb such as getting SVG file of STRING network and highlighting features of interest.

You can install STRINGutils with:

devtools::install_github("chiasinL/STRINGutils")

For more thorough walkthrough of the package, please see the vignette.

Getting SVG file of STRING network:

library(STRINGutils)
svg <- get_svg(string_db, hits, file = "my_network.svg")

If we have a list of proteins of interest, the full or sub- STRING network of the proteins can be obtained. These proteins will be highlighted by the colors of choice.

For full network:

plot_features(example1_mapped, colors_vec, string_db, entire = TRUE)

For subnetwork:

plot_features(example1_mapped, colors_vec, string_db)