Silencing Echoes: Cleaning Up Networks

Silencing Echoes: Cleaning Up Networks

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2014 Award Winner

Soheil Feizi, Steven Lee (Artist), Daniel Marbach, Muriel Medard, Manolis Kellis
Computational Biology Group

MIT CSAIL

Are all connections meaningful? This image visualizes a new algorithm (known as "network deconvolution") for detetermining important relationships in complex networks. Like a filter on a camera lens, it reveals which links (lines) between interconnected elements (points) are most essential. As the lens passes over each network area, indirect links disappear and direct links become visible. Already tested on large networks mapping gene regulation, protein folding, and academic co-authorship, network deconvolution can be used to identify key drivers of biological, social, and technological systems.

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