• 中国计算机学会会刊
  • 中国科技核心期刊
  • 中文核心期刊
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A Novel Method for Measuring the Modularity of Biological Complex Networks

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  • (1.National Laboratory for Parallel and  Distributed Processing,Changsha 410073;
    2.State Key Laboratory of Proteomics,Beijing Proteomics Research Center,Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine,Beijing 102206;
    3.Department of Automatic Control,School of Mechatronics and Automation,
    National University of Defense Technology,Changsha 410073,China)

Received date: 2009-06-22

  Revised date: 2009-10-10

  Online published: 2010-07-28

Abstract

In life science, biological networks usually describe the complex biological processes systematically. Modularity is one of the basic properties of many complex networks. So, biological network modularity is an important research subject of the system biology. Here, we propose a new method to measure the modularity of these networks, and apply it on the yeast transcriptional factors regulatory network and the metabolic networks of several organisms. The results show that the former is not of functional modularity while the latter’s functional modularity is significant. And the application in the metabolic network describes that our index is more suitable for the functional modularity of networks than ACC (Average Cluster Coefficient). In addition, it is effective to do the comparisons between the modularity of differential biological networks or differential module identifying methods by using this method.

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LIU QiJun1,2,WANG Zhenghua1,GUO Hao2,SUN Hanchang2,3,LIU Wanlin2,ZHU Yunpin . A Novel Method for Measuring the Modularity of Biological Complex Networks[J]. Computer Engineering & Science, 2010 , 32(8) : 112 -116 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1007130X.2010.

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