Everything about Graph Modelling Language

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Graph Modelling LanguageA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Combinatorial Pattern Matching Algorithms in Computational Biology using Perl and RThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Realization and Extension of the Xfrog Approach for Plant Modelling in the Graph-Grammar Based Language XLCited 3 times
4. Go sideways: DOT (graph description language)A closely related topic
5. Go sideways: GraphvizA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Realization and Extension of the Xfrog Approach for Plant Modelling in the Graph-Grammar Based Language XL

  Michael Henke, Ole Kniemeyer, Winfried Kurth · 2017 · Computing and Informatics · 3 citations

• Geographical modelling of language decline

  Douglas Brown, Steven Wrathmall · 2023 · Royal Society Open Science · 3 citations

• Capturing gesture semantics: a spatio-temporal graph-based modelling framework for Indian sign language captioning

  Vibhor Sharma, Anurag Singh, Sabrina Gaito · 2026 · Universal Access in the Information Society · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Combinatorial Pattern Matching Algorithms in Computational Biology using Perl and RGabriel Valiente · 2009
• 📕Building Probabilistic Graphical Models with PythonKiran R Karkera · 2014
• Fundamentals of algebraic graph transformationHartmut Ehrig · 2006
• 📕R CookbookJD Long; Paul Teetor · 2019

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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• XGMML XGMML (the eXtensible Graph Markup and Modeling Language) is an XML application based on GML which is used for graph description. XGMML is an XML 1.0-based…
• NetworkX NetworkX is a Python library for studying graphs and networks. NetworkX is free software released under the BSD-new license. NetworkX began development…
• GraphML GraphML is an XML-based file format for graphs. The GraphML file format results from the joint effort of the graph drawing community to define a common…
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• Igraph igraph is a library collection for creating and manipulating graphs and analyzing networks. It is written in C and also exists as Python and R packages…