BFWalk: backtrack-free network propagation with in-degree normalization
Jędrzej Kubica, Dariusz Plewczyński, Sébastien Dejean, Nicolas Thierry‐Mieg
BFWalk is a network propagation algorithm that avoids bias toward highly connected proteins, outperforming existing methods in identifying phenotype-associated genes across four human diseases.
bioRxiv · Sep 28, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics