After officially shutting down print production of its famous biochemical pathways posters, Roche made the posters available via a nifty online interface. Unfortunately, this has left people who want a paper copy without a good option. This script will download and assemble the Metabolic Pathways poster from the tiles hosted on their server to give you a large, printable PNG file.
You will need the following requirements:
Python > 3.5.2- ImageMagick.
The script will run on OSX and linux machines. Windows was not tested, yet.
Install the requirements in requirements.txt by running
pip install -r requirements.txt
run the script from the command line using
python extract_metabol.pyif python2 is installed, along with python3, make sure to call the script using python3.
python3 extract_metabol.pyThis will dump all the raw tiles in images/, assembled layers in assembled/, and the final image finalimg.png in the root directory.
- Specify the zoom level by changing
zoomLevelat the beginning ofextract_metabol.py. - If you want to have the original grid, comment out the line that removes grid from the array in the beginning of
extract_metabol.py.
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