Table 2. Network parameters of the signal transduction networks (calculated using Cytoscape [38]).

Parameters	Initial network	Union network	Intersection network
Number of nodes	447	150	50
Number of edges	2944	720	207
Network radius	1	1	1
Network diameter	15	10	7
Characteristic path length	4.724	3.534	2.544
Shortest paths	38329 (19%)*	6063 (27%)	916 (37%)
Average number of neighbors	13.172	9.600	8.280
Clustering coefficient	0.247	0.255	0.284

*: Percentage of the shortest paths in all possible paths.