Algorithm Finds The Network -- For Genes Or The Internet

Courtesy ScienceDaily Wed, 03/19/2008 - 10:00

Human diseases and social networks seem to have little in common. However, at the crux of these two lies a network, communities within the network, and farther even, substructures of the communities.

Computer scientists and geneticists can now use a new computer program to automatically discover communities and their subtle structures in a variety of networks.

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