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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe package adds an exported STRING backend for physical, functional, and regulatory networks. It converts UniProt accessions, retrieves and normalizes STRING interactions, and preserves groundings from other backends. Shared network contracts and curation filters now support missing evidence counts and semicolon-joined evidence sources. ChangesSTRING backend and shared network contracts
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant StringBackend
participant STRINGRESTAPI
Caller->>StringBackend: Request a subnetwork
StringBackend->>STRINGRESTAPI: Resolve version when needed
STRINGRESTAPI-->>StringBackend: Version and host
StringBackend->>STRINGRESTAPI: POST network query
STRINGRESTAPI-->>StringBackend: Interaction records
StringBackend-->>Caller: Validated nodes, edges, and provenance
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Some accessions may remain unmapped, stalled STRING requests may not finish, and uncommon protein-name collisions can produce incorrect network edges. These bounded issues warrant fixes or explicit acceptance before merging. Pre-merge checks |
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- Around line 729-737: Update .post_string_request to pass an httr::timeout()
option to httr::POST so STRING requests do not block indefinitely; keep the
existing request body and response handling unchanged.
- Around line 338-346: Update .map_accessions_to_string to repeat follow-up
requests for missing accessions while each request reduces the missing set,
recomputing missing after appending results; stop when no accessions are missing
or a request makes no progress.
- Around line 610-630: Update .list_latent_string_nodes to use each STRING
grounding as the latent node ID while retaining the preferred name as
entity_name, and update the source and target .find_node_ids_for_grounding calls
in STRING edge construction to use those same grounding-based IDs. This keeps
distinct proteins with identical preferred names mapped to distinct nodes.
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- Line 302: Update the `evidence_sources` type check in `validate_network()` so
it accepts character columns and all-missing logical columns, but rejects all
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NAMESPACENEWS.mdR/AllClasses.RR/AllGenerics.RR/backend-indra-cogex.RR/backend-indra.RR/backend-registry.RR/backend-string.RR/contract.RR/entities.RR/filter-edges.RR/getSubnetworkFromIndra.RR/network-postprocess.Rman/NetworkBackend-class.Rdman/backend_capabilities.Rdman/convert_ids.Rdman/filter_by_curation.Rdman/getSubnetworkFromIndra.Rdman/get_network.Rdman/string_backend.Rdman/validate_network.Rdtests/testthat/_fixtures/golden_subnetwork.rdstests/testthat/_fixtures/make_string_fixtures.Rtests/testthat/_fixtures/string/get_string_ids.jsontests/testthat/_fixtures/string/network_functional.jsontests/testthat/_fixtures/string/network_physical.jsontests/testthat/_fixtures/string/network_regulatory.jsontests/testthat/_fixtures/string/version.jsontests/testthat/helper-indra.Rtests/testthat/test-backend-indra.Rtests/testthat/test-backend-string.Rtests/testthat/test-contract.R
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| .map_accessions_to_string <- function(backend, accessions, organism) { | ||
| mapping <- .request_string_ids(backend, accessions, organism) | ||
| missing <- setdiff(accessions, mapping$accession) | ||
| if (length(missing) > 0 && length(missing) < length(accessions)) { | ||
| mapping <- rbind(mapping, | ||
| .request_string_ids(backend, missing, organism)) | ||
| } | ||
| mapping | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Repeat the follow-up request until no accession maps.
STRING returns only one row for several accessions of the same protein. The function sends the missing accessions only once. Suppose three or more accessions map to one STRING protein. Each round recovers one accession, so the third accession stays unmapped. convert_ids() then reports that accession as "not found in STRING" and leaves its row ungrounded. Loop while the missing set shrinks.
Proposed fix
mapping <- .request_string_ids(backend, accessions, organism)
missing <- setdiff(accessions, mapping$accession)
- if (length(missing) > 0 && length(missing) < length(accessions)) {
- mapping <- rbind(mapping,
- .request_string_ids(backend, missing, organism))
- }
+ n_before <- length(accessions)
+ while (length(missing) > 0 && length(missing) < n_before) {
+ n_before <- length(missing)
+ mapping <- rbind(mapping,
+ .request_string_ids(backend, missing, organism))
+ missing <- setdiff(accessions, mapping$accession)
+ }
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| .map_accessions_to_string <- function(backend, accessions, organism) { | |
| mapping <- .request_string_ids(backend, accessions, organism) | |
| missing <- setdiff(accessions, mapping$accession) | |
| if (length(missing) > 0 && length(missing) < length(accessions)) { | |
| mapping <- rbind(mapping, | |
| .request_string_ids(backend, missing, organism)) | |
| } | |
| mapping | |
| } | |
| .map_accessions_to_string <- function(backend, accessions, organism) { | |
| mapping <- .request_string_ids(backend, accessions, organism) | |
| missing <- setdiff(accessions, mapping$accession) | |
| n_before <- length(accessions) | |
| while (length(missing) > 0 && length(missing) < n_before) { | |
| n_before <- length(missing) | |
| mapping <- rbind(mapping, | |
| .request_string_ids(backend, missing, organism)) | |
| missing <- setdiff(accessions, mapping$accession) | |
| } | |
| mapping | |
| } |
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Review comment at @R/backend-string.R around lines 338 - 346:
Update .map_accessions_to_string to repeat follow-up requests for missing
accessions while each request reduces the missing set, recomputing missing after
appending results; stop when no accessions are missing or a request makes no
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| #' List the STRING proteins of interactions that match no entity row | ||
| #' @param interactions from \code{.parse_string_network()} | ||
| #' @param grounding_lookup from \code{.build_grounding_lookup()} | ||
| #' @return data.frame like \code{.list_latent_backend_nodes()}'s, with | ||
| #' STRING's preferred name as \code{id} | ||
| #' @keywords internal | ||
| #' @noRd | ||
| .list_latent_string_nodes <- function(interactions, grounding_lookup) { | ||
| backend_nodes <- data.frame( | ||
| namespace = rep(STRING_NAMESPACE, 2 * nrow(interactions)), | ||
| entity_id = c(interactions$source_id, interactions$target_id), | ||
| entity_name = c(interactions$source_name, interactions$target_name), | ||
| stringsAsFactors = FALSE) | ||
| matches_no_row <- vapply(backend_nodes$entity_id, function(entity_id) { | ||
| length(.find_entity_rows_for_grounding( | ||
| grounding_lookup, STRING_NAMESPACE, entity_id)) == 0 | ||
| }, logical(1), USE.NAMES = FALSE) | ||
| backend_nodes <- backend_nodes[matches_no_row, , drop = FALSE] | ||
| backend_nodes$id <- backend_nodes$entity_name | ||
| backend_nodes[!duplicated(backend_nodes$id), , drop = FALSE] | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Use the STRING grounding as the latent node ID.
When two unmatched STRING proteins have different IDs but the same preferred name, edge construction uses that name for both endpoints. Latent-node assembly keeps only one node because it deduplicates by name. The result can be a self-edge on the first protein's node, while the second protein's grounding is lost. validate_network() accepts this because the endpoint still exists, but the edge no longer reaches each node with its grounding.
Suggested fix
diff --git a/R/backend-string.R b/R/backend-string.R
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source_node_ids = .find_node_ids_for_grounding(
grounding_lookup, STRING_NAMESPACE,
- interactions$source_id[i], interactions$source_name[i]),
+ interactions$source_id[i],
+ paste(STRING_NAMESPACE, interactions$source_id[i], sep = ":")),
target_node_ids = .find_node_ids_for_grounding(
grounding_lookup, STRING_NAMESPACE,
- interactions$target_id[i], interactions$target_name[i]))
+ interactions$target_id[i],
+ paste(STRING_NAMESPACE, interactions$target_id[i], sep = ":")))
@@
-#' @return data.frame like \code{.list_latent_backend_nodes()}'s, with
-#' STRING's preferred name as \code{id}
+#' @return data.frame like \code{.list_latent_backend_nodes()}'s, with
+#' the STRING grounding as \code{id} and preferred name as \code{entity_name}
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- backend_nodes$id <- backend_nodes$entity_name
+ backend_nodes$id <- paste(backend_nodes$namespace,
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Review comment at @R/backend-string.R around lines 610 - 630:
Update .list_latent_string_nodes to use each STRING grounding as the latent node
ID while retaining the preferred name as entity_name, and update the source and
target .find_node_ids_for_grounding calls in STRING edge construction to use
those same grounding-based IDs. This keeps distinct proteins with identical
preferred names mapped to distinct nodes.
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| .post_string_request <- function(url, body) { | ||
| response <- httr::POST(url, body = body, encode = "form") | ||
| if (httr::http_error(response)) { | ||
| stop("STRING request to ", url, " failed with HTTP status ", | ||
| httr::status_code(response), ".", call. = FALSE) | ||
| } | ||
| jsonlite::fromJSON(httr::content(response, as = "text", | ||
| encoding = "UTF-8")) | ||
| } |
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Add a timeout to the STRING POST call.
httr::POST has no timeout here. If STRING stalls, convert_ids() and get_network() block indefinitely. Pass httr::timeout().
Proposed fix
- response <- httr::POST(url, body = body, encode = "form")
+ response <- httr::POST(url, body = body, encode = "form",
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| .post_string_request <- function(url, body) { | |
| response <- httr::POST(url, body = body, encode = "form") | |
| if (httr::http_error(response)) { | |
| stop("STRING request to ", url, " failed with HTTP status ", | |
| httr::status_code(response), ".", call. = FALSE) | |
| } | |
| jsonlite::fromJSON(httr::content(response, as = "text", | |
| encoding = "UTF-8")) | |
| } | |
| .post_string_request <- function(url, body) { | |
| response <- httr::POST(url, body = body, encode = "form", | |
| httr::timeout(60)) | |
| if (httr::http_error(response)) { | |
| stop("STRING request to ", url, " failed with HTTP status ", | |
| httr::status_code(response), ".", call. = FALSE) | |
| } | |
| jsonlite::fromJSON(httr::content(response, as = "text", | |
| encoding = "UTF-8")) | |
| } |
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Update .post_string_request to pass an httr::timeout() option to httr::POST so
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| } | ||
| if ("evidence_sources" %in% colnames(edges)) { | ||
| sources <- edges$evidence_sources | ||
| if (!is.character(sources) && !all(is.na(sources))) { |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Reject all-missing list columns in evidence_sources.
If a caller sets edges$evidence_sources <- list(NA, NA), all(is.na(sources)) is true. validate_network() then accepts a list column where the contract requires source-name strings or missing values. Accept the all-NA logical column produced by data.frame(), but reject other non-character column types.
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--- "a/R/contract.R"
+++ "b/R/contract.R"
@@ -299,7 +299,8 @@
}
if ("evidence_sources" %in% colnames(edges)) {
sources <- edges$evidence_sources
- if (!is.character(sources) && !all(is.na(sources))) {
+ if (!is.character(sources) &&
+ !(is.logical(sources) && all(is.na(sources)))) {
problems <- c(problems, "edges$evidence_sources must be character")
} else {
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| if (!is.character(sources) && !all(is.na(sources))) { | |
| if (!is.character(sources) && | |
| !(is.logical(sources) && all(is.na(sources)))) { |
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Update the `evidence_sources` type check in `validate_network()` so it accepts
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The backend contract needs to support multiple network providers and edges without evidence counts. This change adds a STRING backend and updates shared entity-grounding and edge-handling behavior to support STRING and INDRA together.
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StringBackendandstring_backend(). The backend supports physical, functional, and regulatory networks, configurable versions, UniProt grounding, evidence-source filtering, and confidence filtering.NAevidence counts and semicolon-separated evidence sources.Unit tests
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