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Community Detection App for Cytoscape

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Community Graph vs Node Graph

NETfrix opened this issue · comments

When I use Louvain or Infomap for Community Detection in Cyto I get a Community Graph instead of a "regular" nodes' graph with nodes colored by community association.
It's difficult to analyze the community graph without knowing which nodes are in which communities.
The grid that shows the nodes' ID for each community doesn't contain info about the nodes.
The community graph can be useful only when I understand what's the community about (like after using WordCloud to identify the community traits).
Thank you for your time and for the plugin!

I use Win10, Cyto ver:3.8.2

Thank you for trying the App and reaching out.

You are correct the resulting network is a Community Graph where each node represents a cluster of nodes in the hierarchy. This approach was chosen a way to get around the issue where a given node will exist in multiple levels of the hierarchy.

If you want to see the members of a given Community Graph node you can right click on the node and
click on View Interactions for Selected Node Click here for more information

I can't promise when it will be completed, but we are working on a tool to export these hierarchies into HiView which employs an alternate way to view hierarchies.

chris

No activity in over half a year. Going to close this ticket. Please re-open if needed.