The igraph software package for complex network research

Csárdi, Gábor; Nepusz, Tamás

Affiliations

¹Center for Complex Systems Studies, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

²Department of Biophysics, KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

³Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

Abstract

The igraph software package provides handy tools for researchers in network science. It is an open source portable library capable of handling huge graphs with millions of vertices and edges and it is also suitable to grid computing. It contains routines for creating, manipulating and visualizing networks, calculating various structural properties, importing from and exporting to various file formats and many more. Via its interfaces to high-level languages like GNU R and Python it supports rapid development and fast prototyping.

Links

URL: http://www.interjournal.org/manuscript_abstract.php?361100992

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