In the UK, university researchers interact with industry using a wide variety of channels, and engage more frequently in the majority of the channels examined, such as contract research, joint research, consulting, or training, with only a minority of such interaction relating to patenting or spin-out activities (D'Este and Patel 2007).
Thus, a dataset for which several thousand sites have been called might in fact be capturing a minority of true positive interactions, or it might encompass virtually all biologically pertinent sites.
However, during the developmental timecourse, including nervous tissue development, correlation of the expression of miRNAs and their targets has been found to be either limited to a minority of miRNA-target interactions [ 44] or to be a feature of a late post-natal developmental onset [ 45].
For example, a recent study exploring the heterotypic interactions between human cancer-derived cell lines and stromal fibroblasts[34] finds that a minority of genes show interaction effects.
From this perspective, we suggest that clinical guidelines produced and disseminated in a paper based format will only ever be able to adequately account for a minority of potential drug-drug interactions.
A power-law distribution indicates that the majority of the network nodes tend to show small numbers of interactions and that only a minority of nodes is highly-connected.
"They were first drawn by economic pulls to these areas," he said, "but as these groups continue to establish roots in small-town America, they will gradually change the fabric of minority-majority interactions nationwide".
Also, as already pointed out in the introduction, only a minority of the genes with synthetic lethal interactions are closely related [ 2, 4- 6].
Accordingly, the species hurt by social interactions becomes the minority of a community or even dies out, including the green cells for amensalism and the red cells in parasitic populations.
Cooper went on to point out that the nature of interactions between law enforcement and the black community cannot be changed until the overall identity of minorities is disconnected from an ongoing cycle of abuse within the criminal justice system.
