Discussion to: Bayesian graphical models for modern biological applications by Y. Ni, V. Baladandayuthapani, M. Vannucci and F.C. Stingo

In the present contribution we provide a discussion of the paper on “Bayesian graphical models for modern biological applications”. The authors present an extensive review of Bayesian graphical models, which are used for a variety of inferential tasks applied to biology and medicine settings. Our contribution proposes a conceptual connection between two scientific frameworks, graphical models and social network analysis, by highlighting also the role played by network models and random graphs. A bibliometric analysis is performed by exploiting publications collected from online bibliographic archives to map the main themes characterizing the two research fields. Specifically, a co-word network analysis is carried out using visualization tools and thematic evolution maps.