Disentangling direct from indirect relationships in association networks

N Xiao, A Zhou, ML Kempher… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Networks are vital tools for understanding and modeling interactions in complex systems in
science and engineering, and direct and indirect interactions are pervasive in all types of …

Network deconvolution as a general method to distinguish direct dependencies in networks

S Feizi, D Marbach, M Médard, M Kellis - Nature biotechnology, 2013 - nature.com
Recognizing direct relationships between variables connected in a network is a pervasive
problem in biological, social and information sciences as correlation-based networks …

Part mutual information for quantifying direct associations in networks

J Zhao, Y Zhou, X Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Quantitatively identifying direct dependencies between variables is an important task in data
analysis, in particular for reconstructing various types of networks and causal relations in …

[HTML][HTML] Ecological network inference from long-term presence-absence data

EL Sander, JT Wootton, S Allesina - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Ecological communities are characterized by complex networks of trophic and nontrophic
interactions, which shape the dy-namics of the community. Machine learning and …

Network link prediction by global silencing of indirect correlations

B Barzel, AL Barabási - Nature biotechnology, 2013 - nature.com
Predictions of physical and functional links between cellular components are often based on
correlations between experimental measurements, such as gene expression. However …

[HTML][HTML] Combined use of network inference tools identifies ecologically meaningful bacterial associations in a paddy soil

H Wang, Z Wei, L Mei, J Gu, S Yin, K Faust… - Soil Biology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
High-throughput sequencing technologies have recently made it possible to interrogate the
phylogenetic diversity of soils at considerable depth. This ability has led to the development …

iNAP: an integrated network analysis pipeline for microbiome studies

K Feng, X Peng, Z Zhang, S Gu, Q He, W Shen, Z Wang… - imeta, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Integrated network analysis pipeline (iNAP) is an online analysis pipeline for generating and
analyzing comprehensive ecological networks in microbiome studies. It is implemented in …

[HTML][HTML] Cautionary notes on the use of co-occurrence networks in soil ecology

M Goberna, M Verdú - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil ecology is witnessing exponential growth in the number of studies using co-occurrence
network analysis. Researchers reconstruct networks based on the co-occurrence of taxa or …

Structural equation modeling of a winnowed soil microbiome identifies how invasive plants re-structure microbial networks

SD Mamet, E Redlick, M Brabant, EG Lamb… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The development of microbial networks is central to ecosystem functioning and is the
hallmark of complex natural systems. Characterizing network development over time and …

[HTML][HTML] From diversity to complexity: Microbial networks in soils

K Guseva, S Darcy, E Simon, LV Alteio… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Network analysis has been used for many years in ecological research to analyze
organismal associations, for example in food webs, plant-plant or plant-animal interactions …