A new approach to decoding life: systems biology.
Institute for Systems Biology, SeattleNowadays, the major hurdles to obtain bulk genomic information have been overcome and high-throughput methods for measuring global expression of RNA, proteins and metabolites (genomics, proteomics and metabolomics) have been developed. To gain an understanding of biology at a higher level, with its complex collection of networks and pathways, the ~omics have to been pulled together in an approach called systems biology. However, the term systems biology can be understood in different ways....
A new approach to decoding life: systems biology.
Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle
The map of the genome is just the rule book; "systems biology" is the ball game.
Stikeman, Upstream 2002
Systems biology simultaneously studies the complex interaction
of many levels of biological information to understand how they work together.
http://www.systemsbiology.org/
"The computer simulation of life." Kitano, Nature 2003
Systems biology looks at how the components work together as a system.
Biomolecular Systems
The Systems Biology Center aims at the discovery of useful functionalities
buried in the "Book of Life".
http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~imds/
Systems biology is high-throughput reductionism. Katagiri, Plant Physiology
2003
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