Table 1 Comparison of multilayer network analysis and visualization libraries
From: Py3plex toolkit for visualization and analysis of multilayer networks
Py3plex | Pymnet (Kivelä et al. 2014) | MuxViz (De Domenico et al. 2015) | MultinetX (Amato et al. 2017) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Core features | ||||
Programming language | Python 3 and C (via Numpy and Cython) | Python 3 and C (via Numpy) | R | Python 3 and C (via Numpy) |
Basic statistics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Visualization of large networks | ✓ | - | ✓ | - |
Visualization in 3D | - | ✓ | - | ✓ |
Aggregation/decomposition | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - |
Random graph generators | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Adjacency matrix manipulation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
[3pt] Additional features | ||||
[3pt] Node classification | ✓ | - | - | - |
Isomorphisms | ✓ | ✓ | - | - |
Community detection | ✓ | - | ✓ | - |
GUI version | - | - | ✓ | - |
Tensor manipulation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Node ranking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Semantic topology enrichment | ✓ | - | - | - |
Temporal networks | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
Network embedding | ✓ | - | - | - |