Table 1. Basic topological features of the networks we study.

	hsaPPI	Cel	CGScience	Lesmis	String	Corum	String Corum
|V|	2821	281	7343	77	16886	2314	2270
|E|	13880	2402	11898	254	1520927	34148	153788
<k>	9.84	17.1	5.29	6.59	180.14	29.51	135.49
<S>	8.469	9.57	2.55	3.94	68.43	13.22	58.15
C	0.169	0.346	0.486	0.573	0.301	0.747	0.371
CW	0.167	0.291	0.535	0.602	0.231	0.795	0.278
<d>	4.5	2.32	5.32	2.64	2.49	4.34	2.1
r	0.362	–0.136	0.243	–0.165	–0.0198	0.703	–0.0225
H	3.28	1.64	4.71	1.83	2.8	3.35	4.05

|V| and |E| are the number of nodes and links. 〈k〉 and 〈S〉 are the average degree and strength. C and C_W are the unweighted⁴⁹ and weighted⁵⁰ versions of clustering coefficient, respectively (see definitions in Eqs. (15) and (16)). 〈d〉 denotes the average distance, r indicates the assortativity coefficient [44], and H is the degree heterogeneity, defined as 〈k²〉/〈k²〉.