2.3 Modelling tools

The study of biological networks by its very nature requires an interdisciplinary approach.

Different analytical methods should be used in different scenarios to obtain different conclusions.

In this section, a brief introduction to the methods used to carry out this thesis is provided.

The objective here is to get used to the general ideas and capabilities of each family of methods and their technical vocabulary.

As it was commented in the Abstract, three main toolboxes where used to analyse biological networks and to extract useful biological information:

graph theory, constraint-based modelling and multivariate statistics.