It is developed by the Chair of Systems Design of ETH Zürich, a research group that applies a complex system approach to investigate economic and social networks.Ĭytoscape is an open source software platform for visualizing complex networks and integrating these with any type of attribute data. It allows detailed visualizations of the network data, interactive manipulation of the layout, graph edition and process visualization as well as different input methods and outputs in tex using Tikz and PSTricks.

Many of the products listed here are open source with a license that permits free use in commercial settings.Ĭuttlefish is a network workbench application that visualizes the networks with some of the best known layout algorithms.

The main constructs are nodes (the entities we are interested in – typically people), and the ties or edges that connect them. Social network analysis software generally uses network and graph theory to investigate social structures both analytically and visually.

Network analysis tools