Biochemistry, Department of

 

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

5-2013

Citation

Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2013 May ; 93(5): 393–395. doi:10.1038/clpt.2013.41.

Comments

Copyright © 2013 American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Used by permission.

Abstract

Diseases are often a result of multiple malfunctions in complex, nonlinear biological/biochemical networks. As such, these processes are far more complicated to understand because they tend to give rise to functions that are emergent in nature, i.e., higher-level (mal)functions that are more than the sum of their parts. Systems biology provides a new approach to understanding biological systems and diseases from a holistic perspective.

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