Gephi - The Open Graph Viz Platform
Gephi is an award-winning open-source platform for visualizing and manipulating large graphs. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Localization is available in English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, German, Romanian, Greek, Hungarian, Korean, Swedish and Ukrainian.
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Fast Powered by a built-in OpenGL engine, Gephi is able to push the envelope with very large networks. Visualize networks up to a million elements. All actions (e.g. layout, filter, drag) run in real-time.
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Simple Easy to install and get started. An UI that is centered around the visualization. Like Photoshop™ for graphs.
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Modular Extend Gephi with plug-ins. The architecture is built on top of Apache Netbeans Platform and can be extended or reused easily through well-written APIs.
Download Gephi for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and consult the release notes. Example datasets can be found on our wiki.
Install and use Gephi
Download and Install Gephi on your computer.
Get started with the Quick Start and follow the Tutorials. Load a sample dataset and start to play with the data.
If you run into any trouble or have questions consult our discussions.
Latest releases
Stable
Development builds
Development builds are generated regularly. Current version is 0.11.4-SNAPSHOT
Developer Introduction
Gephi is developed in Java and uses OpenGL for its visualization engine. Built on the top of Netbeans Platform, it follows a loosely-coupled, modular architecture philosophy. Gephi is split into modules, which depend on other modules through well-written APIs. Plugins can reuse existing APIs, create new services and even replace a default implementation with a new one.
Consult the Javadoc for an overview of the APIs.
Requirements
Checkout and Build the sources
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Fork the repository and clone
git clone [email protected]:username/gephi.git
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Run the following command or open the project in an IDE
mvn -T 4 clean install
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To skip tests and speed up the build, use the skipTests profile
mvn -T 4 clean install -P skipTests
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Once built, one can test running Gephi
cd modules/application
mvn nbm:cluster-app nbm:run-platform
Note that while Gephi can be built using JDK 17 or later, it currently requires JDK 17 to run.
Create Plug-ins
Gephi is extensible and lets developers create plug-ins to add new features, or to modify existing features. For example, you can create a new layout algorithm, add a metric, create a filter or a tool, support a new file format or database, or modify the visualization.
Gephi Toolkit
The Gephi Toolkit project packages essential Gephi modules (Graph, Layout, Filters, IO…) in a standard Java library which any Java project can use for getting things done. It can be used on a server or command-line tool to do the same things Gephi does but automatically.
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