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Comprehensive simulation studies demonstrate the superior efficiency and efficacy of double OT in different scales of networks compared to state-of-the-art methods. We also apply the proposed method to a gastric cancer dataset, identifying the proto-oncogene MET as a central node in the gastric cancer GRN. 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