NoSPaM Manual - A Tool for Node-Specific Triad Pattern Mining

TL;DR

This paper introduces a manual for NoSPaM, a tool that enables node-specific triad pattern mining in complex networks, addressing the limitation of traditional motif detection methods that overlook regional variations.

Contribution

It provides a practical implementation of NoSPaM, allowing researchers to perform node-specific motif analysis in networks, which was previously not readily accessible.

Findings

Enables detection of local motif overrepresentation

Addresses limitations of global motif analysis

Provides accessible tool for network researchers

Abstract

The detection of triadic subgraph motifs is a common methodology in complex-networks research. The procedure usually applied in order to detect motifs evaluates whether a certain subgraph pattern is overrepresented in a network as a whole. However, motifs do not necessarily appear frequently in every region of a graph. For this reason, we recently introduced the framework of Node-Specific Pattern Mining (NoSPaM). This work is a manual for an implementation of NoSPaM which can be downloaded from www.mwinkler.eu.