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As someone who has spent a lot of time staring at big hairball biological networks, I've always been frustrated by them. I've been looking for a better solution
by JunkDNA 16y ago
As someone who has spent a lot of time staring at big hairball biological networks, I've always been frustrated by them. I've been looking for a better solution for some time now. I'm not sure this is it though.
My main beef is that I feel strongly that a visualization succeeds when you don't have to explain how it works. Just looking at the main page, without reading any of the slide deck, I had a hard time understanding what was going on. In fact, for the first simple example in the slide deck, I found the original network to be easier to grok than the new version. Things certainly appear more organized than when in a big hairball, but I still have trouble extracting any meaningful information.
- nervechannel 16y agoThat was my reaction -- I don't get it. I liked his Circos package better: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/circos/ http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/circos/
- draegtun 16y agoI posted the Circos link yesterday but it didn't get much traction: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1786722 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1786722
- nervechannel 16y agoWell, it is kind of old news now, it's been around for years
- draegtun 16y agoWell it was only serendipity that I came across it yesterday.
- igrekel 16y agoAs you probably know, Martin Krzywinski is also the author of the Circos software. Circos has been in development for much longer and addressed different kinds of issues.
- nervechannel 16y agoYes, that's why I referred to "his Circos package"