Systems Biology

Systems Biology is a biological research approach that puts strong emphasis on the biological system as a whole. In systems biology interactions between molecules are as important as the molecules themselves. Systems Biology inlcudes three complementary perspectives:

• Comprehensive measurements: the new techniques of microarrays, proteomics, and metabolomics, and other high-throughput technologies
• Theoretical biology: providing a basis for understanding phenomena
• Computational biology: because a systems approach requires computation (ie the mathematical formulations require computer support)

Systems biology has recently gained widespread support from the research community, but a lot of the theoretical developments took place in decades past...

The 8th International Conference on Systems Biology will be held in Long Beach, October 1-6 2007.

Our group is involved in the SBML forum, in addition Dr. Stefan Hoops is a member of the SBML editorial team.