Biology – Quantitative Biology – Molecular Networks
Scientific paper
2010-01-27
Current Trends in Science: Platinum Jubilee Special (Ed. N Mukunda), Bangalore: Indian Academy of Sciences, 2009, pp 199-205
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Molecular Networks
6 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
With the completion of human genome mapping, the focus of scientists seeking to explain the biological complexity of living systems is shifting from analyzing the individual components (such as a particular gene or biochemical reaction) to understanding the set of interactions amongst the large number of components that results in the different functions of the organism. To this end, the area of systems biology attempts to achieve a "systems-level" description of biology by focusing on the network of interactions instead of the characteristics of its isolated parts. In this article, we briefly describe some of the emerging themes of research in "network" biology, looking at dynamical processes occurring at the two different length scales of within the cell and between cells, viz., the intra-cellular signaling network and the nervous system. We show that focusing on the systems-level aspects of these problems allows one to observe surprising and illuminating common themes amongst them.
Chatterjee Nivedita
Jesan T.
Sinha Sitabhra
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