Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS)
Abstract
In the August 2013 issue of this journal, Barzel & Barabási reported a method for reconstructing network topologies. Here we show that the Barzel & Barabási method is a variant of a previously published method, modular response analysis (MRA). We also demonstrate that the implementation of their algorithm using statistical similarity measures as a proxy for global network responses to perturbations is erroneous and its performance is overestimated.
Document type
Comment/Letter to the editor
Note
With supplementary information. - Comment to: B. Barzel, A.-L. Barabási (2013) Network link prediction by global silencing of indirect correlations, In: Nat. Biotechnol. 31, 720–725.