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Fig. 3.43
A visualization of a co-citation network associated with research in regenerative
medicine. The
colors
indicate the time of publication
3.5.5.3
Large Graph Layout (LGL)
The layout of our map of influenza virus protein sequences was generated by LGL.
It first determines the layout of a large graph from a minimum spanning tree of the
graph. LGL is one of the computer programs openly available for visualizing large
graphs. It is written in C and the source code is available.
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It has been mostly used
in biomedical studies. More details are available on the web, but the project is no
longer actively maintained, to compile it one has to download some legacy libraries
such as boost 1.33.1.
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LGL has been used to generate some of the most intriguing maps of the Internet
in 2003-2005. Examples can be found at
http://www.opte.org/maps/
.
3.6
Summary
In summary, in this chapter we have explored some of the most popular ideas and
techniques for mapping the mind. A good strategy of working with abstract data is
to apply the same technique to some concrete data or data that we are familiar with.
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