Empirical Comparison of Visualization Tools for Larger-Scale Network Analysis

Table 1

Empirical evaluation of our top four interactive network visualization tools (Cytoscape, Gephi, Tulip, and Pajek) for large-scale biological network analysis.

	Cytoscape	Tulip	Gephi	Pajek
Scalability
User friendliness
Visual styles
Edge bundling				—
Relevance to biology
Memory efficiency
Clustering
Manual node/edge editing
Layouts
Network profiling
File formats
Plugins
Stability
Speed
Documentation

= weaker; = medium; = good; = strongest.