cytoscape_data

cytoscape_data(G, name='name', ident='id')

Returns data in Cytoscape JSON format (cyjs).

Parameters:

GNetworkX Graph

The graph to convert to cytoscape format

namestring

A string which is mapped to the ‘name’ node element in cyjs format. Must not have the same value as ident.

identstring

A string which is mapped to the ‘id’ node element in cyjs format. Must not have the same value as name.

Returns:

data: dict

A dictionary with cyjs formatted data.

Raises:

NetworkXError

If the values for name and ident are identical.

See also

cytoscape_graph

convert a dictionary in cyjs format to a graph

References

[1]

Cytoscape user’s manual: http://manual.cytoscape.org/en/stable/index.html

Examples

>>> G = nx.path_graph(2)
>>> nx.cytoscape_data(G)  
{'data': [],
 'directed': False,
 'multigraph': False,
 'elements': {'nodes': [{'data': {'id': '0', 'value': 0, 'name': '0'}},
   {'data': {'id': '1', 'value': 1, 'name': '1'}}],
  'edges': [{'data': {'source': 0, 'target': 1}}]}}