Usage of Cose layout

[neuhausi]

Is it possible to use the cose layout outside of Cytosape? Sorry if this is not the right forum to ask this question

[ugurdogrusoz]

@neuhausi First of all, let me clarify that this repo is for use and reuse in our other layout styles (e.g. cose-bilkent and fcose), not meant to be used alone. But for a sample use of it, within other JS libraries you may refer to fcose repository for instance. Alternatively, you can use this service that allows one to input a graph in formats such as JSON and graphml and get the results (coordinates) in JSON.

[neuhausi]

@ugurdogrusoz Thank you for the reply. The only repo I found is for fcose is this which also requires cytoscape. Is it possible to use it with D3 or CanvasXpress?

[ugurdogrusoz]

Yes, that's the correct repo for fcose. You basically have two choices at this point:

• Use syblars service pointed out earlier (in which case you might as well use fcose as it's an improved algorithm)
• Use cose-base as it is currently used in fcose

[neuhausi]

So just to be clear. It is not possible to use it with D3 like cola.

[ugurdogrusoz]

You could use cose-base (which is independent of rendering library) with any library including D3. But it's not straightforward. An example usage is in fcose.

[neuhausi]

Ok. Thank you very much.