Systems biologists seek fuller integration of systems biology approaches in new cancer research programs

Systems biology takes an interdisciplinary approach to the systematic study of complex interactions in biological systems. This approach seeks to decipher the emergent behaviors of complex systems rather than focusing only on their constituent properties. As an increasing number of examples illustra...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) Ill.), 2010, Vol.70 (1), p.12-13
Main Authors: Wolkenhauer, Olaf, Auffray, Charles, Baltrusch, Simone, Blüthgen, Nils, Byrne, Helen, Cascante, Marta, Ciliberto, Andrea, Dale, Trevor, Drasdo, Dirk, Fell, David, Ferrell, Jr, James E, Gallahan, Daniel, Gatenby, Robert, Günther, Ulrich, Harms, Brian D, Herzel, Hanspeter, Junghanss, Christian, Kunz, Manfred, van Leeuwen, Ingeborg, Lenormand, Philippe, Levi, Francis, Linnebacher, Michael, Lowengrub, John, Maini, Philip K, Malik, Arif, Rateitschak, Katja, Sansom, Owen, Schäfer, Reinhold, Schürrle, Karsten, Sers, Christine, Schnell, Santiago, Shibata, Darryl, Tyson, John, Vera, Julio, White, Michael, Zhivotovsky, Boris, Jaster, Robert
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Biomedical Research - trends
Humans
Neoplasms
Systems Biology
Citations: Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Systems biology takes an interdisciplinary approach to the systematic study of complex interactions in biological systems. This approach seeks to decipher the emergent behaviors of complex systems rather than focusing only on their constituent properties. As an increasing number of examples illustrate the value of systems biology approaches to understand the initiation, progression, and treatment of cancer, systems biologists from across Europe and the United States hope for changes in the way their field is currently perceived among cancer researchers. In a recent EU-US workshop, supported by the European Commission, the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, and the National Cancer Institute of the NIH, the participants discussed the strengths, weaknesses, hurdles, and opportunities in cancer systems biology.
ISSN:0008-5472
1538-7445
DOI:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-2676