Graphs in Python

greg_kr gkrill at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 10:07:21 EDT 2008


You should use Python with R. Google for Rpy, this is the best
Graphing you can do with Python

On Apr 11, 7:40 am, Philipp Pagel <pDOTpa... at helmholtz-muenchen.de>
wrote:
> Sanhita Mallick <sanhi... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I have looked at that, and other similar ones all of
> > which are based on Graphviz.
>
> Networkx is not based on graphviz.
>
>
>
> > My problem is that I myself am creating some large graphs
> [...]
> > So I would like to use a graphical/visual method than typing out the
> > nodes.
>
> Not sure what exactly you mean. you will have to enter the nodes somehow
> - afterwards you can visualize them.
>
> Do you mean you would like to have a GUI for entering nodes and edges?
> I see two options: (1) write a GUI to do that (2) use an existing graph
> editor and use networkx or something like that for analysis.
>
> > Also, I am looking for a good tutorial for basic graph
> > implementation other than the one on python.org.
>
>  - Look at the source code for networkx.
>  - Alternatively, basic graph algorithms can be found in many general
>    algorithm books.  
>  - More specific stuff e.g. in A. Gibbons "Algorithmic Graph Theory".
>
> cu
>         Philipp
>
> --
> Dr. Philipp Pagel
> Lehrstuhl f. Genomorientierte Bioinformatik
> Technische Universität Münchenhttp://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel




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