About the Authors
- Susan Dina Ghiassian
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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
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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
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* E-mail: 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.