Cross-disciplinary detection and analysis of network motifs.

ABSTRACT: The detection of network motifs has recently become an important part of network analysis across all disciplines. In this work, we detected and analyzed network motifs from undirected and directed networks of several different disciplines, including biological network, social network, ecological network, as well as other networks such as airlines, power grid, and co-purchase of political books networks. Our analysis revealed that undirected networks are similar at the basic three and four nodes, while the analysis of directed networks revealed the distinction between networks of different disciplines. The study showed that larger motifs contained the three-node motif as a subgraph. Topological analysis revealed that similar networks have similar small motifs, but as the motif size increase

SUBMITTER: Tran NT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4403903 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature