Taxonomy visualisation, library

in development

This part is to use as a JavaScript library, if you want to use this visualisation as a custom element see lower in this readme.

Usage

Install the library

This library is available on npm as taxonomy-visualisation.

See it running Here.

To install, run npm install --save taxonomy-visualisation.

Load the library

Using ES modules (modern approach)

import TaxonomyVisualisation from 'taxonomy-visualisation';

Using a global script tag (legacy approach)

<script async src="<path_to_library>/dist/taxonomy-visualisation-main.js"></script> 

Or using unpkg CDN (not recommend for production), see usage here

<script async src="https://unpkg.com/taxonomy-visualisation"></script>

Those will make the library available globally on window.TaxonomyVisualisation

If D3 is already present in your page, you can use the taxonomy-visualisation-main-without-d3.js file to avoid loading D3 multiple times and thus load a smaller file to use this library.

Example

see example folder for more examples

Given the following document:

<main>
  <div id="focus-root"></div>
  <svg id="tree-root"></svg>
</main>

One way to instantiate this library with data stored in the data variable could be like this:

// Create the instance with data and options
const visualisation = new TaxonomyVisualisation(data, { initialMaxNodes: 10 });
 
// Or the data could be updated later like in the following comment
// visualisation.data = data;
 
// Connect the instance to DOM elements
visualisation.tree = document.getElementById('tree-root');
visualisation.focus = document.getElementById('focus-root');
 
// Hook up the events emitted by the instance to some custom logic
visualisation.addEventListener('focus', event => {
  console.log('custom focus event', event.detail);
});
 
visualisation.focus.addEventListener('click', event =>
  console.log(visualisation.getDataFromEvent(event))
);

Or like this:

const visualisation = new SpeciesVisualisation(data, {
  tree: document.getElementById('tree-root'),
  focus: document.getElementById('focus-root'),
  initialMaxNodes: 10,
});

Dynamic example

To play with a dynamic example, you can clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/ProteinsWebTeam/taxonomy-visualisation.git

go into the resulting folder

cd taxonomy-visualisation

install the dependencies

npm install

then run the example with

npm run start

and open the page whose URL is displayed in the console

API

The only, and default, export from this library is the TaxonomyVisualisation class.

The TaxonomyVisualisation() constructor creates a new TaxonomyVisualisation

Syntax

const visualisation = new TaxonomyVisualisation(data, options);

values

• data:

  a Data object, of the type Node as defined here:

type Node = {
  id: string | number,// unique in the whole tree (tax id)
  name: string,// name displayed
  children?: Array<Node>,
  hitdist?: Array<number>,// distribution of hits
  hitcount?: number,// number of hits
};

Note that all the hitdist arrays should have the same length throughout the tree.

All of the keys will be kept and made available as a Node's data. You can store more information that the one required to draw the tree.

• options: (optional)

  • tree: (optional, default: undefined.)

    a SVGSVGElement (<svg></svg>) to display the tree visualisation into.

  • focus: (optional, default: undefined)

    a HTMLElementto display the focus information into.

  • initialMaxNodes: (optional, default: 10)

    a positive number corresponding to the maximum number of node to display at once for the initial load. For example if the number of nodes from the root to the depth of 2 is 8, but the number of nodes from the root to the depth of 3 is 11, then only display up to the level of 2. all the nodes at this second level will be collapsed and none of their children will be displayed by default. +Infinity is a valid value, and will display all of the nodes in the tree.

  • fisheye: (optional, default: false)

    a boolean representing if the fisheye view will be activated or not on instantiation. It can still be modified after through the instance's fisheye attribute.

  • classnames: (optional)

    A map of classnames to use instead of the defaults. Can be useful if using css-modules for example.

    • ancestor: (optional, default: 'ancestor')

      applied to all parent nodes in the focus view (including the focused node)

    • arrow: (optional, default: 'arrow')

      the arrow used to communicate that there are collapsed children

    • bin: (optional, default: 'bin')

      every bar used in the histogram

    • focusRing: (optional, default: 'focus-ring')

      the ring used to show the currently focused node

    • focused: (optional, default: 'focused')

      applied only on the focused node

    • hits: (optional, default: 'hits')

      applied to the histogram container

    • hitsBg: (optional, default: 'hits-bg')

      applied to the histogram background

    • inPath: (optional, default: 'in-path')

      applied to all the nodes and paths either parents or children of the focused node (including the focused node)

    • label: (optional, default: 'label')

      text group displaying the name of a node and the arrow if needed

    • link: (optional, default: 'link')

      path between 2 nodes

    • name: (optional, default: 'name')

      text displaying the name of a node

    • node: (optional, default: 'node')

      node on screen

methods

• redraw(): void

  Forces redrawing the whole tree.

• getDataFromEvent(event: Event): Node

  Given an event returned by one of the event listeners, returns the data corresponding to the node that emitted the event.

• focusNodeWithID(id: string | number): void

  Given an ID, focus the node with the corresponding ID, if it exists.

• addEventListener(type: 'click' | 'focus', fun: Event => void): Event => void

  Add an event listener for a specific event (focus or click). The callback function will be called with an Event object. getDataFromEvent can be used with this Event. Return the callback function passed as an input, to keep a reference to it to later remove it with removeEventListener.

• removeEventListener(type: 'click' | 'focus', fun: Event => void): void

  Remove an event listener previously added with addEventListener.

• cleanup(): void

  Clean up all the event listeners, and detach all external references inside the instance to avoid memory leaks.

attributes

• data: Node (read-write)

  Data associated with this instance of the visualisation.

• tree: SVGSVGElement (read-write)

  SVG DOM Element containing the tree visualisation.

• focus: HTMLElement (read-write)

  DOM Element containing the focus visualisation.

• fisheye: Boolean (read-write)

  Status of the fisheye mode to have a better view of the focused node.

Taxonomy visualisation, Custom Element implementation

Usage

Install the library

This library is available on npm as taxonomy-visualisation.

See it running Here.

To install, run npm install --save taxonomy-visualisation.

Load the library

Using ES modules

import TaxonomyVisualisationElement, {
  TaxonomyVisualisation,
} from 'taxonomy-visualisation/dist/taxonomy-visualisation-ce.js';

Using a global script tag

<script async src="<path_to_library>/dist/taxonomy-visualisation-ce.js"></script> 

Or using unpkg CDN (not recommend for production), see usage here

<script async src="https://unpkg.com/taxonomy-visualisation/dist/taxonomy-visualisation-ce.js"></script>

If D3 is already present in your page, you can use the taxonomy-visualisation-ce-without-d3.js file to avoid loading D3 multiple times and thus load a smaller file to use this library.

Example

see example folder for more examples

Given the following document:

<main>
  <div id="focus-root"></div>
  <svg id="tree-root"></svg>
  <taxonomy-visualisation
    id="tree-root"
    focus-id="focus-root"
    initial-max-nodes="10"
  >
</main>

One way to instantiate this library with data stored in the data variable could be like this:

// Create the instance with data and options
const visualisation = (document.querySelector('#tree-root').data = data);
 
// Hook up the events emitted by the instance to some custom logic
visualisation.addEventListener('focus', event => {
  console.log('custom focus event', event.detail);
});

Dynamic example

To play with a dynamic example, you can clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/ProteinsWebTeam/taxonomy-visualisation.git

go into the resulting folder

cd taxonomy-visualisation

install the dependencies

npm install

then run the example with

npm run start

and open the page whose URL is displayed in the console and add /index_ce.html at the end of the URL.

API

The only default export from this library is the TaxonomyVisualisationElement class that you can use to define a custom element tag name. By default it will assign it to taxonomy-visualisation.

Additionally, a named export make the TaxonomyVisualisation class available. See the beginning of this readme for instructions on how to use the JavaScript library.

Syntax

A minimum syntax could be:

<taxonomy-visualisation>

and that's it.

methods

Additionally to a normal HTMLElement, a TaxonomyVisualisationElement exposes:

• toggleFisheye(): Boolean

  Toggles the fisheye mode. returns the mode's new value.

events

Additionally to a normal HTMLElement, a TaxonomyVisualisationElement may fire events of type click (when a node is clicked in the visualisation), focus (when the focused node changes), or change (when the fisheye mode changes).

To load data into the visualisation, it will also listen for load events coming from below in the DOM tree. You can use in combination with the <data-loader> custom element (see data-loader library). You can look at the custom element example for how to use it in combination.

properties

Additionally to a normal HTMLElement, a TaxonomyVisualisationElement exposes:

• data: Node (read-write)

  Data associated with this instance of the visualisation.

• fisheye: Boolean (read-write)

  Status of the fisheye mode to have a better view of the focused node.

attributes

Additionally to a normal HTMLElement, a TaxonomyVisualisationElement accepts:

• initial-max-nodes (only used on instantiation)

• focused (in-sync with the focused property)

  Presence or absence denote activation or not of the fisheye mode.