%0 Journal Article %T An introduction to spectral distances in networks (extended version) %A Giuseppe Jurman %A Roberto Visintainer %A Cesare Furlanello %J Quantitative Biology %D 2010 %I arXiv %X Many functions have been recently defined to assess the similarity among networks as tools for quantitative comparison. They stem from very different frameworks - and they are tuned for dealing with different situations. Here we show an overview of the spectral distances, highlighting their behavior in some basic cases of static and dynamic synthetic and real networks. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.0103v3