1. Framework and Graph Visualization Tools

2. The Project Three subprojects: Fill the database:
Understand existing DB
Insert data: pathways…
Visualization of queries results:
Input: JSON file
Use a framework and library to visualize graphs
Selectable fields
Form creation and Cypher queries
Communication with stakeholders
Generate queries using Cypher

3. JSON – First Definition
JavaScript Object Notation.
Syntax for storing and exchanging data.
It is a text-based data format, written with JavaScript object notation.
Simply to understand.
Usable with different programming languages.

4. JSON - Syntax Syntax is derived from JavaScript :
Data is in name/value pairs
Data is separated by commas
Curly braces hold objects
Square brackets hold arrays

5. Framework - Django Open-source framework written in Python
It follows a MVC architectural pattern:
Model: Python classes containing modeled data
View: web templating system
Controller: URL-based dispatcher
It help in the creation of complex, database-driven websites.

6. Framework - Django Useful plugin:

7. Framework - Flask Lightweight Python-based "microframework "
keeps the core simple but extensible.
It is compatible with Jinja2 (templating engine)
Used for NoSQL databases
CouchDB
Neo4j

8. Framework - Pyramid
General, open source, Python web application development framework
It follow the principles:
Simplicity: pay only for what you eat" approach - It doesn't force you to use any particular technology to produce an application
Minimalism: tries to solve only the fundamental problems of creating a web application: the mapping of URLs to code, templating…
Speed: designed to provide noticeably fast execution for common tasks such as templating and simple response generation.

9. Library - Cytoscape
Cytoscape is an open source software platform for visualizing complex networks and integrating these with any type of attribute data.
It is used in GeneMANIA web application
It is written in pure JS
Compatible with jQuery
Py2cytoscape: tools to use Cytoscape and Cytoscape.js from Python

10. Library – Alchemy.js
It is a graph drawing application built almost entirely in d3
Compatible with jQuery
It works with graphJSON format
Graph customization

11. Graph Visualization Tools
Tableau
Tom Sawyer
Linkurious
KeyLines