The functioning of biological systems depends heavily on the interaction of its constituents at various levels of organization, be it at the subcellular level or at the ecosystem scale. To understand the complexity of such interactions in a more abstract yet workable way, people have turned to networks as a useful representation (Gosak et al., 2018;Gysi & Nowick, 2020). The use of network science and its tools in biology has exploded in the past two decades, owing to the burst of high-resolution data and improved computational capabilities. The application of network science has improved our fundamental understanding of many biological systems and structures, such as food webs (
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.