/biochemical-pathways-poster

Scripts to download and assemble printable versions of Roche's famous biochemical pathways poster

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Biochemical Pathways Poster

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.

Requirements

You will need the following requirements:

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

preview jpeg

Usage

run the script from the command line using

python extract_metabol.py

if python2 is installed, along with python3, make sure to call the script using python3.

python3 extract_metabol.py

This will dump all the raw tiles in images/, assembled layers in assembled/, and the final image finalimg.png in the root directory.

options

  • Specify the zoom level by changing zoomLevel at the beginning of extract_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.

Pre-Compiled Images

Future features

  • Printable part 2: cellular mechanisms