Recent advances in high-throughput technologies have created exciting opportunities for
systematically investigating the molecular basis of human disease. In addition to a growing
catalog of disease-associated genetic variations, we can now map out an increasingly
detailed network diagram of the complex machinery of interacting molecules that constitutes
the basis of (patho-) physiological states. The emerging field of 'network medicine'applies
tools and concepts from network theory to interpret this diagram and elucidate the relation …