Nature Communications (May 2019)

Optimal control nodes in disease-perturbed networks as targets for combination therapy

  • Yuxuan Hu,
  • Chia-hui Chen,
  • Yang-yang Ding,
  • Xiao Wen,
  • Bingbo Wang,
  • Lin Gao,
  • Kai Tan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10215-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Synergistic interactions may arise between regulators in complex molecular networks. Here, the authors develop OptiCon, a computational method for de novo identification of synergistic key regulators and investigate their potential roles as candidate targets for combination therapy.