Modularity

[Former user]

Hi! I would like to know the usefulness of the command head(net$communities$modularity) in the tutorial available at http://thegrantlab.org/bio3d/81-vignettes. Best, Jorge

[Barry Grant]

Briefly, modularity measures the strength of division of a network into modules (also called groups, clusters or communities). Networks with high modularity have dense connections between the nodes within modules but sparse connections between nodes in different modules.