TY - JOUR A1 - Hempel, Stefan A1 - Koseska, Aneta A1 - Kurths, Jürgen A1 - Nikoloski, Zoran T1 - Inner composition alignment for inferring directed networks from short time series T2 - Physical review letters N2 - Identifying causal links (couplings) is a fundamental problem that facilitates the understanding of emerging structures in complex networks. We propose and analyze inner composition alignment-a novel, permutation-based asymmetric association measure to detect regulatory links from very short time series, currently applied to gene expression. The measure can be used to infer the direction of couplings, detect indirect (superfluous) links, and account for autoregulation. Applications to the gene regulatory network of E. coli are presented. Y1 - 2011 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36730 SN - 0031-9007 VL - 107 IS - 5 PB - American Physical Society CY - College Park ER -