Display more attributes per node/edge

[Dario P Colombotto]

Hi all,

     I saw that Cytoscape offers a lot of advanced graphic features for displaying nodes (chart, images, etc.), but how to display more than 1 node attribute (maybe in a new line) ? If not possible, someone knows if an App exists for this purpose?  (same for edges)

For example, each node could represent a person and I would display "Name", "Age" and "Weight" (possibly in different lines or positions)...

Thanks and best regards,

Dario

[piet molenaar]

Hi Dario,

Imho these attributes would be excellent for visualization as a visual property; e.g map Weight to nodesize and age to color as described here: http://manual.cytoscape.org/en/stable/Styles.html#styles-tutorials. 

Otherwise you might want to create a new node String attribute that uses a function to concatenate the values of the other attributes, described here: http://manual.cytoscape.org/en/stable/Column_Data_Functions_and_Equations.html

Use that concatenated value as node label in your visual style

see also picture attached.

Hope this helps,

Piet

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Dario P Colombotto <darioco...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

     I saw that Cytoscape offers a lot of advanced graphic features for displaying nodes (chart, images, etc.), but how to display more than 1 node attribute (maybe in a new line) ? If not possible, someone knows if an App exist for this purpose?  (same for edges)

For example, each node could represent a person and I would display "Name", "Age" and "Weight" (possibly in different lined or positions)...

Thanks and best regards,

Dario

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cytoscape-helpdesk" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cytoscape-helpdesk+unsub...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to cytoscape-helpdesk@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/cytoscape-helpdesk.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--

Piet Molenaar
piet...@gmail.com
Department of Oncogenomics, M1-131
Academic Medical Center
University of Amsterdam
Meibergdreef 9
1105 AZ Amsterdam
the Netherlands

tel (+31) 20-5666592
fax (+31) 20-6918626

[Dario P Colombotto]

Hi Piet, many thanks for your hint.

I already thought about fields concatenation, but this doesn't solve my problem since in that way values are in one line and I cannot control the new line; by inserting "\n" doesn't work.

Do you have any other suggestion or workaround or maybe an App that allows this?

Unfortunately, label visualization is too "ugly" if I concatenate fields because for each node, it will make a new lines basing on the length of values without any formatting rule, e.g.:

Node 1

   Name: Dario; Age: 

   15; Field2: 1234...

Node 2

   Name: Edward Johnson

   Marquez; Age: 33; Fie...

I'm not a technician but a simple workaround could be to find a way to force new line using a special char sequence (e.g. \n), even if the best solution is to add multiple labels in different positions.

Thanks and best regards,

Dario

On Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 1:44:54 PM UTC+2, Piet wrote:

Hi Dario,

Imho these attributes would be excellent for visualization as a visual property; e.g map Weight to nodesize and age to color as described here: http://manual.cytoscape.org/en/stable/Styles.html#styles-tutorials. 

Otherwise you might want to create a new node String attribute that uses a function to concatenate the values of the other attributes, described here: http://manual.cytoscape.org/en/stable/Column_Data_Functions_and_Equations.html

Use that concatenated value as node label in your visual style

see also picture attached.

Hope this helps,

Piet

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Dario P Colombotto <darioco...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

     I saw that Cytoscape offers a lot of advanced graphic features for displaying nodes (chart, images, etc.), but how to display more than 1 node attribute (maybe in a new line) ? If not possible, someone knows if an App exist for this purpose?  (same for edges)

For example, each node could represent a person and I would display "Name", "Age" and "Weight" (possibly in different lined or positions)...

Thanks and best regards,

Dario

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cytoscape-helpdesk" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cytoscape-helpdesk+unsub...@googlegroups.com.

To post to this group, send email to cytoscape...@googlegroups.com.

Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/cytoscape-helpdesk.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.