This project incorporates the PubMed API to create a tool that builds networks representing research collaborations across life science fields. In each network, a node represents the last author on a publication, while an edge represents publications that share one or several authors. Our tool shows that most networks demonstrate characteristics of scale-free networks but cannot be statistically proven to be scale free. We performed case studies on three networks to describe the relationship between bottleneck authors and their collaborators.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Moulaison, Amanda Wylie
• Northcott, Haylea Tricia

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042319-130247

Award

• Provost's MQP Award

Advisor

• Ryder, Elizabeth F.
• Korkin, Dmitry

Year

• 2019

Sponsor

• UMASS Medical School - Program in Systems Biology

Date created

• 2019-04-23

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
• Interdisciplinary

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved

Last modified

• 2023-01-19