With the recent explosion of publicly available high throughput biological data, the analysis of molecular networks has gained significant interest. The type of analysis in this content are closely related to social network analysis, but often focusing on local patterns in the network. For example, [[network motif]]s are small subgraphs that are over-represented in the network. [[Activity motifs]] are similar over-represented patterns in the attributes of nodes and edges in the network that are over represented given the network structure. The analysis of [[biological network]]s has led to the development of [[network medicine]], which looks at the effect of diseases in the [[interactome]].<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Barabási | first1 = A. L. | last2 = Gulbahce | first2 = N. | last3 = Loscalzo | first3 = J. | year = 2011 | title = Network medicine: a network-based approach to human disease | journal = Nature Reviews Genetics | volume = 12 | issue = 1| pages = 56–68 | doi=10.1038/nrg2918 | pmid=21164525 | pmc=3140052}}</ref> | With the recent explosion of publicly available high throughput biological data, the analysis of molecular networks has gained significant interest. The type of analysis in this content are closely related to social network analysis, but often focusing on local patterns in the network. For example, [[network motif]]s are small subgraphs that are over-represented in the network. [[Activity motifs]] are similar over-represented patterns in the attributes of nodes and edges in the network that are over represented given the network structure. The analysis of [[biological network]]s has led to the development of [[network medicine]], which looks at the effect of diseases in the [[interactome]].<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Barabási | first1 = A. L. | last2 = Gulbahce | first2 = N. | last3 = Loscalzo | first3 = J. | year = 2011 | title = Network medicine: a network-based approach to human disease | journal = Nature Reviews Genetics | volume = 12 | issue = 1| pages = 56–68 | doi=10.1038/nrg2918 | pmid=21164525 | pmc=3140052}}</ref> |