{"id":27637,"date":"2016-07-09T08:02:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T15:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/mathematical-framework-that-prioritizes-key-patterns-in-networks-aims-to-accelerate-scientific-discovery"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:23:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:23:28","slug":"mathematical-framework-that-prioritizes-key-patterns-in-networks-aims-to-accelerate-scientific-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/mathematical-framework-that-prioritizes-key-patterns-in-networks-aims-to-accelerate-scientific-discovery","title":{"rendered":"Mathematical framework that prioritizes key patterns in networks aims to accelerate scientific discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mathematical-framework-that-prioritizes-key-patterns-in-networks-aims-to-accelerate-scientific-discovery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Networks are mathematical representations to explore and understand diverse, complex systems\u2014everything from military logistics and global finance to air traffic, social media, and the biological processes within our bodies. In each of those systems, a hierarchy of recurring, meaningful internal patterns\u2014such as molecules and proteins interacting inside cells, and capacitors and resistors operating within integrated circuits\u2014determines the functions or behaviors of those systems. The larger and more intricate a system is, however, the harder it is for current network modeling techniques to uncover these patterns and represent them in organized, easy-to-understand ways.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Stanford University, funded by DARPA\u2019s Simplifying Complexity in Scientific Discovery (SIMPLEX) program, have made progress in overcoming these challenges through a framework they have developed for identifying and clustering what mathematicians call \u201cmotifs\u201d: essential but often obscure patterns within systems that are the building blocks of mathematical modeling and that facilitate the computational representation of complex systems.<\/p>\n<p>A research paper describing the team\u2019s achievement was published in Science (\u201cHigher-order organization of complex networks\u201d). At the heart of the team\u2019s success was the creation of algorithms that can automatically explore and prioritize the hidden patterns in data that are fundamental to explaining network structure and function.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mathematical-framework-that-prioritizes-key-patterns-in-networks-aims-to-accelerate-scientific-discovery.jpg\" alt=\"a mathematical framework that automatically identifies and prioritizes the patterns that are fundamental to explaining network structure and function\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\"><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=43894.php\">http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=43894.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice. Networks are mathematical representations to explore and understand diverse, complex systems\u2014everything from military logistics and global finance to air traffic, social media, and the biological processes within our bodies. In each of those systems, a hierarchy of recurring, meaningful internal patterns\u2014such as molecules and proteins interacting inside cells, and capacitors and resistors operating within [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,45,41,2229,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-finance","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50174,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27637\/revisions\/50174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}