Dynamics and Processing in Finite Self-Similar Networks

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2011-09-12

arxiv.org/abs/1109.2648v2

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Molecular Networks

31 pages, 8 figures, to appear in J. Roy. Soc. Interface

Scientific paper

10.1098/rsif.2011.0840

A common feature of biological networks is the geometric property of self-similarity. Molecular regulatory networks through to circulatory systems, nervous systems, social systems and ecological trophic networks, show self-similar connectivity at multiple scales. We analyze the relationship between topology and signaling in contrasting classes of such topologies. We find that networks differ in their ability to contain or propagate signals between arbitrary nodes in a network depending on whether they possess branching or loop-like features. Networks also differ in how they respond to noise, such that one allows for greater integration at high noise, and this performance is reversed at low noise. Surprisingly, small-world topologies, with diameters logarithmic in system size, have slower dynamical timescales, and may be less integrated (more modular) than networks with longer path lengths. All of these phenomena are essentially mesoscopic, vanishing in the infinite limit but producing strong effects at sizes and timescales relevant to biology.

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