What is Systems Biology?

Systems biology is increasingly popular, but to many biologists it remains unclear what this new discipline actually encompasses. This brief personal perspective starts by outlining the asthetic qualities that motivate systems biologists, discusses which activities do not belong to the core of systems biology, and finally explores the crucial link with synthetic biology. It concludes by attempting to define systems biology as the research endeavor that aims at providing the scientific foundation for successful synthetic biology.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Front. Physiology

• Publication date

  2010-03-22

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3389/fphys.2010.00009PMID 21423352PMCID 3059953
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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