在做生物網絡分析遇到問題，其中一個是當牽涉到的基因數量一多和參與的節點種類大於一種，很難用簡單的網絡(simple network)來理解，如何有效地把生物網絡更好地去分析，目前感覺採用multilater network的架構，也許是一個可以執得嘗試的方向，這部分的理論架構根據所查的文獻，還是片蠻新的領域，通常物理學、數學、社會科學領域的論文在討論這塊，這邊找到一篇專門在談multilayer network的文章，來閱讀一番。
這篇文章提出一套架構，來整理目前討論複雜網絡(complex network)的說法：
| 網絡種類 | Aligned | Disj | Eq.Size | Diag | L | coup | Cat | |L| | d |
| Multilayer network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multivariate network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiplex network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multirelational network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multidimensional network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multislice network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hypernetwork | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiweighted graph | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Interconnected networks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Network of networks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Meta-matrix/meta-network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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