PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Young Hwan Chang AU - Claire J. Tomlin TI - Network Identification Methods AID - 10.1101/071217 DP - 2016 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 071217 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/08/23/071217.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/08/23/071217.full AB - Recently, network inference algorithms have grown tremendously in the field of systems biology because network identification is essential for understanding relationships between regulation mechanisms for genes, elucidating functional mechanisms underlying cellular processes, as well as identifying molecular targets for discoveries in medicines. This article provides a brief overview of different approaches used to identify biological networks and reviews recent advances in network identification.