Homogeneous decomposition of protein interaction networks: refining the description of intra-modular interactions

Modules in biology appeared quickly as an accurate way for summarizing complex living systems by simple ones. Therefore, finding an appropriate relationship between modules extracted from a biological graph and protein complexes remains a crucial task. Recent studies successfully proposed various descriptions of protein interaction networks. These approaches succeed in showing modules within the network and how the modules interact. However, describing the interactions within the modules, i.e. intra-modular interactions, remains little analyzed despite its interest for understanding module functions.