svenmh/BioGRID-Viewer — Issue #37: Number of interactions to display?
Author: RoseO
Created: 2012-01-11 18:50:53+00:00
State: open
Labels: Policy

We need make a decision about the number of interactions to display in the SVG network image.

The "External SVG" only shows a default of up to 1000 interactions and those that are displayed are the first 1000 randomly returned by the REST service, whereas on the BIogrid website the interactions seem to be ranked based on the number of interactions. There should probably be a brief note about this right on the SVG image, e.g. "Network display limited to 1000 interactions". Otherwise, people might think they're viewing and/or downloading an image with all of the interactions. Alternatively, in the first release, maybe we could only show the SVG network for those genes/proteins that have 1000 or fewer interactions (or whatever number we decide). That way there wouldn't be any inconsistencies between the Biogrid display and the SVG network.

It would also be less confusing for users, because even with the "physical" and "genetic" options in the top left corner, if you deselect the genetic one, for example, then only the remaining physical or genetic interactions out of the original 1000 ones are shown. It doesn't send a new query to get up to a 1000 physical interactions for those cases where there are thousands of interactions.