The network hairball. It’s a common problem when you have too many data points. But, Bill Longabaugh, who’s a senior software engineer at ISB, has created a better way. Called BioFabric, nodes and edges are presented as horizontal and vertical lines. Bill recently created an animation, using characters from “Les Miserables” to demonstrate how BioFabric works. You can see the full-resolution demo at this link. Related Content: ISB Science Report:…
Traditional node-link diagram of a network of yeast protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions with over 3,000 nodes and 6,800 links. Data from: von Mering et. al. Nature, 417, 399-403, May 2002; Lee et. al. Science, 298: 799-804 (2002) The node-link diagram above is a “hairball” of biological network data. Because it’s such a large network, it’s hard to scan for patterns or interesting interactions worth further investigation. But Bill Longabaugh, a…
