Talk:BioFabric

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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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