I'm excited that we've put up a new #preprint on a project that I think of as the "thing explainer." The goal of this project was to, for a pair of biomedical entities, provide the simplest hypothesis for how they might be connected (after, of course, correcting for things like node degree, node type degree distribution, etc).

Conceptually this is simple. In reality (the parenthetical), it's pretty hard. Software & conceptual advances to make it possible.

Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.05.522941v1.full

Project led by @dhimmel!

@greenescientist thanks for the mention! No better way to start off my mastodon profile than with a boost.

Manuscript also available via Manubot at https://greenelab.github.io/connectivity-search-manuscript/

Hetnet connectivity search provides rapid insights into how two biomedical entities are related