Network Motifs and Graphlets
Network Motifs and Graphlets
Network graphlets and motifs are statistically highly recurrent patterns in graphs and networks that have been found to characterize families of networks and shed light on biological functions under evolutionary selective pressure (when found in biological networks). Graphlets are undirected motifs. This Demonstration illustrates the motif and graphlet concept by highlighting all the subgraphs of a given size and plotting the distribution of these under the network in question. Finding motifs is very computationally expensive and so only motifs of size three are calculated in real time in this Demonstration.