Introduction
aiSee is a tool that automatically calculates a customizable layout of graphs specified in GDL (Graph Description Language). This layout is then displayed, and can be printed or interactively explored.
aiSee reads a textual, easy-to-read and easy-to-learn graph specification and visualizes the graph. Its design has been optimized to handle large graphs automatically generated by applications.
aiSee was developed to visualize the internal data structures typically found in compilers. Today it is widely used in many different areas:
- Genealogy (family trees)
- Business management (organization charts)
- Software development (call graphs, control flow graphs, UML class diagrams, PERT charts)
- Hardware design (circuit diagrams, networks)
- Genetics (complex pedigrees)
- Bioinformatics (metabolic and signaling pathways, protein interaction maps, gene expression graphs, shared GeneOntology annotations, literature co-citation relations)
- History research (evolution diagrams)
- Informatics (animation of sorting algorithms)
- Database management (entity relationship diagrams)
- Web design (sitemaps, P2P networks, visitor movement graphs)
- Criminology (fraud networks, felony event flow diagrams)
There are many applications that offer GDL interfaces or incorporate the aiSee graph layout engine. Some of them are freely available on the Internet.
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