Potential integration with Marsilea for tree rendering

[Mr-Milk]

Hi @iosonofabio,

I happened to come across this amazing package for graph and tree visualization. It feels like exactly the kind of tool the Python visualization ecosystem needs.

I’m the developer of Marsilea, a package for declarative creation of composable visualizations. We have previously received user feedback about supporting more complex tree structures, especially for use cases such as evolutionary relationships and other hierarchical biological data.

With iplotx, I think this could become much more feasible. I would be very interested in exploring an integration where iplotx powers tree rendering inside Marsilea, or where Marsilea can compose iplotx tree plots with other visualization components.

I mainly wanted to open this issue to express interest and start a discussion. I’d be happy to hear your thoughts on whether this kind of integration makes sense from your side.

[iosonofabio]

Marsilea looks awesome!

Thanks for writing and happy to support, and worst case scenario iplotx is MIT so you could take the code and run for the hills 😋

We support 6 tree analysis and 3 general network analysis libraries explicitly, plus we have our own poor man's tree and network data structures for folks that are trying to minimise package dependencies. Plus I'm in discussions with more packages to support them too.

How would you like to proceed?

[Mr-Milk]

Haha thanks @iosonofabio

I'm still digging into the cleanest way to integrate on our end. Wiring iplotx in as a first-class tree renderer inside Marsilea will probably take a fair bit of refactoring on our side, but I think it's worth the effort. I'd like to prototype the lighter version first. I will keep you updated!