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. 2022 Feb 24;2(2):84–89. doi: 10.1038/s43588-022-00199-z

Extended Data Fig. 5. Combined structural and functional layout.

Extended Data Fig. 5

A Illustration of the method for generating layouts that combine structural and functional features in a tunable fashion. The structural aspect of the layout is derived from the global layout, where each node in the network is represented by a feature vector containing random walk visiting frequencies to all other nodes. The functional aspect is then introduced by adding an additional column for each functional feature to be included in the layout, for example associations with different diseases. These functional columns contain values ‘1’ or ‘0’, depending on whether a particular node is associated with the respective feature (value ‘1’) or not (value ‘0’). Scaling the functional columns by a factor m ≥ 0 allows to modulate between purely structural layouts (m = 0) and layouts that are increasingly dominated by the functional annotations (m > 0). B Application of the method to a simple model network with ring structure three node annotations, indicated by different colors. As the modulation factor increases from m = 0 to m = 10, the layout transitions from a purely structural one, to one dominated by the node annotations alone.