Kei, we are extremely interested in Neo4j support for Cytoscape, as we are seing a lot of interest for Graphs from the Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics crowd, but in practice, a lot of work is done in iGraph and R, and limited to very basic analytics and the built in graph algos. I think Cytoscape and Neo4j can open up a whole new area of anaytics in that space (without knowing any details of this field).
So, to start with it would be great if you could keep this list updated on your progress (and testable code) and shout if you have problems or hickups. A GSoC project next year sounds great as a second step when the basics are in place! Cheers, /peter neubauer COO and Sales, Neo Technology GTalk: neubauer.peter Skype peter.neubauer Phone +46 704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer http://www.neo4j.org - Your high performance graph database. http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavia's coolest Bring-a-Thing party. On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Keiichiro Ono <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > I'm a core developer of Cytoscape and playing with Neo4j as a backend > for Cytoscape. Currently, this is my personal project, but we are > interested in Neo4j to provide users building their own network > databases locally from Cytoscape. > > In the next version (2.8), Cytoscape can support most of the features > supported by open source graph visualization packages have, such as > custom node graphics layers. Some example are available here: > > http://tumblr.keiono.net/ > > Also, the future version (3.x series) wil be completely modularized by > OSGi, and backend graph implementation is independent from graph API. > So I'm planning to implement it with Neo4j. > > In any case, if you are interested in support for Neo4j in Cytoscape, > please send us feature requests. > > Thanks, > > Kei > Cytoscape Core Developer > UC, San Diego Department of Medicine > > > 2010/7/20 Wouter De Borger <[email protected]>: >> Hi, >> >> I've been using neo4j for some time now and evaluated various GUI solutions. >> (cytoscape, graphviz / xdot, gephi, plantUML) >> My conclusion is that the neo4j eclipse gui is often the best solution for >> complex structured graphs. >> >> However, I have a few suggestions for improvement. (In order of importance) >> >> - open and close buttons: add buttons to make eclipse close the database >> - save configuration: the configuration of which edge types to follow should >> be saved, preferably in the database directory, where I can find and adapt >> it >> - reload button: first close,then open; so that if the database directory is >> deleted and replaced, the new database is opened instead of the old one >> - export function: save as image, SVG or dot file >> >> >> Does anyone else have suggestions for the gui? >> >> >> Wouter >> >> PS: I would implement the suggestions myself, but I'm not very experienced >> with eclipse development >> _______________________________________________ >> Neo4j mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >> > > > > -- > Keiichiro Ono http://www.keiono.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
