STRING FAQ: Does distance mean anything? #shorts
Channel: Lars Juhl Jensen
Date: 2023-03-14

In this ~1 minute presentation, I address a common STRING question, namely whether distance between proteins means anything. The short answer is no. The longer answer is that layout algorithms try to make networks look nice, which results in interacting proteins tending to be close to each other. However, non-interacting proteins can also be close, which means nothing. You should thus always focus on the actual lines in the network, not the distance between the proteins.