Fig. 2From: Boolean network modeling of β-cell apoptosis and insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes mellitusStrongly Connected Component. An example of a strongly connected component (SCC). Suppose the network consists of five genes. Then each node is a state which contains the expression levels of the five genes. An arrow from state S1 to state S2 indicates an update step. In an SCC all states can be reached from every other stateBack to article page