Preliminary exploration of co-functional gene networks for wireless sensor networks

This paper reports on-going progress in the exploration of a co-functional `gold-standard' gene network of Escherichia coli (E. Coli) from EcoliNet [1]. The goal is to apply outcomes of these explorations to wireless sensor networks. Interesting research shows how to cleverly model wireless sensor networks using Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) [2], [3], [4], [5]. These GRNs are scale-free networks. Scale-free networks often successfully model clusters exhibiting preferential attachment. Initially, our paper explores classical graph properties. The focus is on non-randomized expander graphs. Next, an E. coli co-functional gene network is analyzed. This lays foundations to highlight and potentially build on the work on GRNs to other natural scale-free networks such as co-functional genetic networks. Co-functional gene networks are different from GRNs. This is because GRNs are directed networks where directed edges indicate genetic processes such as inhibition and enhancement. Where co-functional gene networks have undirected edges indicating genes that share contributions to genetics.