Loading and using JSON for Cytoscape.js

Question

Context

I want to use cytoscape.js for visualizing graphs. While I am capable with a myriad of languages (C++, Mathematica,

Answer 1

in cyto.js you can input valid JSON data, for example

  {
    "nodes": [
            {
            "data": {"id": "a", "label": "Gene1"}
            },
            {
            "data": {"id": "b", "label": "Gene2"}
            },
            {
            "data": {"id": "c", "label": "Gene3"}
            },
            {
            "data": {"id": "d", "label": "Gene4"}
            },
            {
            "data": {"id": "e", "label": "Gene5"}
            },
            {
            "data": {"id": "f", "label": "Gene6"}
            }
    ],
            "edges": [
            {
            "data": {
            "id": "ab",
                    "source": "a",
                    "target": "b"
            }
            },
            {
            "data": {
            "id": "cd",
                    "source": "c",
                    "target": "d"
            }
            },
            {
            "data": {
            "id": "ef",
                    "source": "e",
                    "target": "f"
            }
            },
            {
            "data": {
            "id": "ac",
                    "source": "a",
                    "target": "d"
            }
            },
            {
            "data": {
             "id": "be",
                    "source": "b",
                    "target": "e"
                }
                }]    
    }