How to annotate nodes in Cytoscape

Question

[lagartija]

Hi everyone,

Do you know cytoscape ? I have a network of 5900 nodes that I want to label them with the gene name (one column of my annotation table). Do you know how I can do that without having to do it manually ? I came accross this app that can be usefull AutoAnnotate but it doesn't work for me as it clusters the nodes before the annotation (and I just want the name inside the single nodes).

I also created filters to differentiate specific nodes. Do you know how to apply a style to a specific filter only ?

Thank you very much in advance, Sofia

[GenoMax]

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[lagartija]

Thank you. That was what I was doing all this time. I tried again from scratch and it seems it works but I loose it when I change to organic layout. Actually I just understood that my problem is very stupid. When I zoom in A LOT I can see the label, otherwise I can not even if I change the size of the font. Not very practical... And not much I can do about it neither; Maybe the version 6.1 has a problem with that (because I did not notice that on the display with other versions).

[lagartija]

Problem almost solved : the labels are not visible on the cytoscape session but when I save the image the labels are visible. I just have to take a look at the save images to edit my network correctly :)

Answer 1

[Jean-Karim Heriche]

Use the Style tab in the control panel and select the gene name column with passthrough mapping as node label property. See the styles docs.