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Published in Physical Review E 76(4): 046115, 2007 which should be cited to refer to this work. Bipartite network projection and personal recommendation Tao Zhou,1,2,* Jie Ren,1 Matúš Medo,1 and Yi-Cheng Zhang1,3,† 1 Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Muse 3, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland 2 Department of Modern Physics and Nonlinear Science Center, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei Anhui, 230026, People’s Republic of China 3 Lab for Information Economy and Internet Research, Management School, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu Sichuan, 610054, People’s Republic of China One-mode projecting is extensively used to compress bipartite networks. Since one-mode projection is always less informative than the bipartite representation, a proper weighting method is required to better retain the original information. In this article, inspired by the network-based resource-allocation dynamics, we raise a weighting method which can be directly applied in extracting the hidden information of networks, with remarkably better performance than the widely used global ranking method as well as collaborative filtering. This work not only provides a creditable method for compressing bipartite networks, but also highlights a possible way for the better solution of a long-standing challenge in modern inform