Every cell in the body has a circadian clock but researchers are unclear about how networks of cells connect with each other over time and how those time-varying connections impact network functions. Researchers at Washington University developed a unified data-driven computational approach named as the ICON (infer connections of networks) method to infer and reveal these connections in biological and chemical oscillatory networks known as the topology of these complex networks based on their time-series data. Abnormal synchrony has been linked to a variety of brain disorders such as epilepsy Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Researchers first tested their method