Editorial: Understanding Biological Systems through Proteomics

Editorial for "advances in biological mass spectrometry and proteomics".

Understanding of Biological Systems

Systems biology is a new field in biology that aims at system-level understanding of biological systems. While molecular biology has led to remarkable progress in our understanding of biological systems, the current focus is mainly on identification of genes and functions of their products which are components of the system. The next major challenge is to understand at the system level biologic...

Understanding Biological Systems

Systems biology research is currently dominated by integrative, multidisciplinary approaches. Although important, these strategies lack an overarching systems perspective such as those used in engineering. We describe here the Axiomatic Design approach to system analysis and illustrate its utility in the study of biological systems. Axiomatic Design relates functions at all levels to the behavi...

Editorial: Systems Biological Aspects of Pituitary Tumors

1 Key Laboratory of Cancer Proteomics of Chinese Ministry of Health, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China, 2 Hunan Engineering Laboratory for Structural Biology and Drug Design, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China, 3 State Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Anticancer Drugs, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China, 4 The Sta...

Role of simulation in understanding biological systems

Recent advances in computer performance and affordability have accelerated their application to understanding biological phenomena. Computational models are now an integral part of biological and biomedical research. This paper presents a range of examples that illustrate the important role that computational simulation plays in research in the biological and biomedical sciences. 2003 Elsevier ...