Crosslink: An R Package for Network Visualization of Grouped Nodes.

ABSTRACT: The demand for network visualization of relationships between nodes attributed to different categories grows in various biomedical research scenarios, such as gene regulatory networks, drug-target networks, ligand-receptor interactions and association networks of multi-omics elements. Elegantly visualizing the relationships between nodes with complex metadata of nodes and edges appended may inspire new insights. Here, we developed the crosslink R package, tailored for network visualization of grouped nodes, to provide a series of flexible functions for generating network diagrams. We first designed a CrossLink class for storage of metadata about nodes and edges and manipulation of node coordinates. Then affine transformation and function mapping transformation are implemented to perform fu

SUBMITTER: Liu D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8322777 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature