bhaveshsunny
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5 years ago @ugurdogrusoz Hi, I am Bhavesh a 4th-year electronics student and GSoC 17 student participant. I am really excited to work on this project. Could you please list a couple of tasks for any of us prospective participants to work on? Thanks!
ugurdogrusoz
Background
Both desktop and web versions of Cytoscape are highly popular and widely used graph libraries / tools for visualizing relational data in various domains including biology. Drawing of nested / compound structures is crucial in representing grouping or clustering structures inherent in an application for enabling more effective analysis and better complexity management of large graphs.
Goal
Currently existing layout algorithm [1] that supports such nesting relations, however, is not suitable for large networks. A new version of this algorithm will be implemented based on spectral graph drawing techniques. Another idea to speed up the algorithm might be computation in GPU.
[1] U. Dogrusoz et al., A layout algorithm for undirected compound graphs, 2019
Difficulty Level 3
The algorithm to be implemented involves linear algebra and parallelization.
Skills
Solid background in data structures and algorithms Excellent programming skills
Java, JavaScript (essential) Knowledge of graph visualization and graph layout (nice to have)
Public Repository
https://github.com/cytoscape/cytoscape.js https://github.com/cytoscape/cytoscape
Potential Mentors
Ugur Dogrusoz
Contact
Ugur Dogrusoz