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ArticleNPJ systems biology and applications2024

Measuring criticality in control of complex biological networks.

Wataru Someya, Tatsuya Akutsu, Jean-Marc Schwartz, Jose C Nacher

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Article in NPJ systems biology and applications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Controllability Analysis of Intercellular Protein-Protein Interaction Networks.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Wataru SomeyaDepartment of Information Science, Faculty of Science, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba, 274-8510, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-7825-5350
Tatsuya AkutsuBioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Uji, 611-0011, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9763-797X
Jean-Marc SchwartzSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6472-0184
Jose C NacherDepartment of Information Science, Faculty of Science, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba, 274-8510, Japan. nacher@is.sci.toho-u.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7187-6152
Toho University · JPKyoto University · JPUniversity of Manchester · GB

Funding

MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) 18K11535MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) 22H00532MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) 22K19830
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent controllability analyses have demonstrated that driver nodes tend to be associated to genes related to important biological functions as well as human diseases. While researchers have focused on identifying critical nodes, intermittent nodes have received much less attention. Here, we propose a new efficient algorithm based on the Hamming distance for computing the importance of intermittent nodes using a Minimum Dominating Set (MDS)-based control model. We refer to this metric as criticality. The application of the proposed algorithm to compute criticality under the MDS control framework allows us to unveil the biological importance and roles of the intermittent nodes in different network systems, from cellular level such as signaling pathways and cell-cell interactions such as cytokine networks, to the complete nervous system of the nematode worm C. elegans. Taken together, the developed computational tools may open new avenues for investigating the role of intermittent nodes in many biological systems of interest in the context of network control.

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Caenorhabditis elegansComputational BiologyAlgorithmsAnimalsHumansSignal Transduction

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PMID38245555
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