py4cytoscape.tools.analyze_network

analyze_network(directed=False, base_url='http://127.0.0.1:1234/v1')[source]

Calculate various network statistics.

The results are added to the Node and Edge tables and the Results Panel. The summary statistics in the Results Panel are also returned by the function as a list of named values.

Parameters

directed (bool) – If True, the network is considered a directed graph. Default is False.
base_url (str) – Ignore unless you need to specify a custom domain, port or version to connect to the CyREST API. Default is http://127.0.0.1:1234 and the latest version of the CyREST API supported by this version of py4cytoscape.

Returns

Named list of summary statistics

Return type

dict

Raises

requests.exceptions.RequestException – if can’t connect to Cytoscape or Cytoscape returns an error

Examples

>>> analyze_network()
{'networkTitle': 'galFiltered.sif (undirected)', 'nodeCount': '330', 'edgeCount': '359', 'avNeighbors': '2.379032258064516', 'diameter': '27', 'radius': '14', 'avSpl': '9.127660963823953', 'cc': '0.06959203036053131', 'density': '0.009631709546819902', 'heterogeneity': '0.8534500004035027', 'centralization': '0.06375695335900727', 'ncc': '26'}
>>> analyze_network(True)
{'networkTitle': 'galFiltered.sif (directed)', 'nodeCount': '330', 'edgeCount': '359', 'avNeighbors': '2.16969696969697', 'diameter': '10', 'radius': '1', 'avSpl': '3.4919830756382395', 'cc': '0.03544266191325015', 'density': '0.003297411808050106', 'ncc': '26', 'mnp': '1', 'nsl': '0'}