[BioRuby] BioRuby Grapics generator for D3

[George Githinji]

@rob d3 would probably be a better fit for complicated plots. (graph
layouts,circos plots, hive-plots?) But I would be happy to see
something that integrates easily with jQuery or uses a similar
approach to render the graphics or could be easily extended with
plugins.

I also remembered that once upon a time we had bio::graphics
http://bio-graphics.rubyforge.org written largely by Jan.

The big challenge for this was the heavy dependency on
 -  cairo (cairographics.org), to do the actual drawing.
 -  pango (www.pango.org), to do the high level text drawing.
and it was also a little trick it make it work on Windows.

It also has not been updated for years.

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Rob Syme <rob.syme at gmail.com> wrote:
> @George, the canvas rendering would probably make certain types of animation
> more difficult than an svg/d3 plot. Then again, canvas rendering gives you
> enormous flexibility.
>
> I quite like genometools (no affiliation or collaboration), perhaps we could
> just piggy-back on the svg generated by their annotationsketch module? The
> ruby/python/lua/C APIs already exists (and are quite good). It just depends
> on how broad the project becomes. There are certainly be many classes plots
> that wouldn't be possible using only this approach.
>
> At the very least, we could take design notes from these guys. To my eyes,
> it has a great clean aesthetic.
>
> -r
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:36 PM, George Githinji <georgkam at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Have you had a look at Scribl? http://chmille4.github.com/Scribl/  and
>> https://github.com/chmille4/Scribl.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public14 at thebird.nl>
>> wrote:
>> > I was wondering if anyone is interested in a Ruby/Python/Perl browser
>> > graphics/animation generator with D3 Javascript output? The idea is to
>> > take existing figures for biological results and working them on to
>> > the web with some level of clickable interaction.
>> >
>> > If you have existing graphics in gnuplot or R, they could be
>> > candidates.
>> >
>> > It could be a GSoC project.
>> >
>> > Pj.
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