About the Authors

Susan Dina Ghiassian

Contributed equally to this work with: Susan Dina Ghiassian, Jörg Menche

Affiliations Center for Complex Networks Research and Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jörg Menche

Contributed equally to this work with: Susan Dina Ghiassian, Jörg Menche

Affiliations Center for Complex Networks Research and Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Network Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Albert-László Barabási

barabasi@gmail.com

Affiliations Center for Complex Networks Research and Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Network Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

A patent application has been filed for the DIAMOnD algorithm (Patent Application No.:US61/881,042). ALB and JM are co-founder of DZZOM, a startup that uses network concepts to explore human disease. The company has no external funding yet.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SDG JM ALB. Performed the experiments: SDG. Analyzed the data: SDG JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SDG JM. Wrote the paper: SDG JM ALB.