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Network cleanup

The erroneous links in networks inferred from data can be efficiently eliminated under certain conditions.

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Figure 1: Cleaning up networks.

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Alipanahi, B., Frey, B. Network cleanup. Nat Biotechnol 31, 714–715 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2657

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