Talk:BioFabric

The BioFabric software is described in a peer-reviewed paper in BMC BioInformatics. It has subsequently been cited in other peer-reviewed work, and has been mentioned in several online slide presentations by others in academia and industry, as it represents an entirely new technique for visualizing large networks. I will continue to improve the page.Wjrl59 (talk) 18:35, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * That paper was written by the software's creator (who I'm guessing could be you, given that the letters in your user name could be the initials of a William Longabaugh; in that case, note that the conflict of interest guidelines apply), so that citation doesn't serve as an indication of notability. I didn't come across much in the way of other mentions, but you're welcome to cite them! —Largo Plazo (talk) 18:45, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Google scholar finds all of five citations to the Longabaugh paper, a small number for this area. It is not immediately clear whether any of them has enough detail about this system to meet the requirement in WP:GNG for multiple sources, reliably published and independent of the subject, that cover it in depth. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:51, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes, full disclosure, I am the software creator. I pondered the conflict of interest aspects of this article with respect to Wikipedia policy, but decided to create it. I also ultimately had to create an article for another project I wrote, BioTapestry. Even after being cited in over 80 academic papers, and being cited on another Wikipedia page, I had to create that article myself after waiting over 11 years to see if somebody else would take the time. So I take the COI policy seriously. Looking at other software articles for open source projects, I see that at least some are also created by the software developers themselves, and then maintained by the software team. So what criteria applies to starting a software project page?

That being said, getting around the scalability problems of node-link diagrams by using nodes-as-lines is one that is gaining traction. The paper has over 6100 accesses. It is a new idea, but it is an extremely simple idea, and not the subject of extensive discussions in many references. But I am not the only one talking about it, and it seems that the idea is one that deserves a place on Wikipedia. Here are some others who are citing BioFabric. With the exception of Magnani and Rossi, none of these are Google Scholar citations for the paper.


 * Mazurie has independently developed a BioFabric implementation in Python.


 * Magnani and Rossi have developed a technique called ranked sociograms based upon BioFabric.


 * Blakley et al have discussed how BioFabric can be used to compare networks.


 * It was cited as an example of an alternate graph visualization technique in CS465 at Middlebury College last spring.


 * It has been cited as a "New & exciting!" graph visualization technique in a presentation by Noah Illinsky.

Thanks Wjrl59 (talk) 21:31, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I'll take a look at those sources. A note about comparing with other articles you come across: see WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. —Largo Plazo (talk) 21:54, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

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