Table 4 Comparisons of the sizes of the DNBs identified by different methods. “—” indicates that the results were not calculated by this method. Method 1 is from the literatures<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 9" title="Chen, L., Liu, R., Liu, Z. P., Li, M. & Aihara, K. Detecting early-warning signals for sudden deterioration of complex diseases by dynamical network biomarkers. Sci. Rep. 2, 342; 10.1038/srep00342 (2012)." href="/articles/srep09283#ref-CR9" id="ref-link-section-d379407341e1754">9</a></sup> and Method 2 is from the study<sup><a data-track="click" data-track-action="reference anchor" data-track-label="link" data-test="citation-ref" aria-label="Reference 10" title="Yu, X., Li, G. & Chen, L. Prediction and early diagnosis of complex diseases by edge-network. Bioinformatics 30, 852–859 (2014)." href="/articles/srep09283#ref-CR10" id="ref-link-section-d379407341e1758">10</a></sup>