Systems Biology: Philosophical Foundations

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Boston: Elsevier (2007)
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Systems biology is a vigorous and expanding discipline, in many ways a successor to genomics and perhaps unprecendented in its combination of biology with a...

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QH331.S96 2007

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Afterthoughts as foundations for systems biology.Fred C. Boogerd, Frank J. Bruggeman, Jan-Hendrik S. Hofmeyr & Hans V. Westerhoff
The disappearance of function from 'self-organizing systems'.Evelyn Fox Keller
Towards philosophical foundations of Systems Biology: introduction.Fred C. Boogerd, Frank J. Bruggeman, Jan-Hendrik S. Hofmeyr & Hans V. Westerhoff
How can we understand metabolism.  (pages 87--102)David A. Fell
On building reliable pictures with unreliable data: An evolutionary and developmental coda for the new systems biology.  (pages 103--20)William C. Wimsatt
Theories, models, and equations in systems biology.  (pages 145--162)Kenneth F. Schaffner
Data without models merging with models without data.  (pages 181--213)Ulrich Krohs & Werner Callebaut
A systemic approach to the origin of biological organization.  (pages 243--268)Alvaro Moreno

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