About iHOPerator

iHOPerator is a GreaseMonkey user-script that operates over the iHOP (information Hyperlinked Over Proteins) website. It enhances the gene-centered pages on iHOP by providing a compact, configurable visualization of the defining information for each gene and by enabling additional data, such as biochemical pathway diagrams, to be collected from third party resources and displayed in the same browsing context.

User-scripts are programs stored in web browsers that can alter the content of specific websites prior to display in the browser. They provide a novel mechanism by which the consumers of websites can conveniently control the content and the display of the information presented to them on the Web. As the Web is the primary medium by which scientists retrieve biological information, any improvements in the mechanisms that underlie this process may have profound effects. GreaseMonkey is a Mozilla Firefox extension that facilitates the development of user-scripts for the Firefox web-browser. We utilize this to enhance the content and the presentation of the iHOP website.

Install iHOPerator

Requirements
  • Browser: Firefox
  • GreaseMonkey extension
Installation Instructions
  1. Install Firefox Web Browser.
    • If you do not already have Firefox browser installed, please click here to download.
  2. Install the GreaseMonkey plug-in.
    • Click here to download GreaseMokey.
  3. Close your Firefox browser windows.
  4. Restart Firefox and go to this iHOPerator homepage.
  5. Right click on the following .js link and select "Install this User Script"
  6. Once the dialog window pops up and says "ihopcloudgenerator.user.js installed successfully", you have successfully installed iHOPerator.
  7. Use your installed iHOPerator by going to the iHOP website. Here is an example of IRF3 Gene. You may click on the link to test if your iHOPerator works.

iHOPerator Documentation

  • iHOPerator: user-scripting a personalized bioinformatics Web, starting with the iHOP website
    Benjamin M Good , Edward A Kawas , Byron Yu-Lin Kuo and Mark D Wilkinson
    BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:534 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-534 [HTML] [PDF]

  • iHOPerator Help

Contact

iHOPerator is brought to you by the Wilkinson Laboratory.

Please visit the authors' homepages: Any Question or comment about iHOPerator, please contact Edward Kawas.