Systems Biology

Philosophical Foundations
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-444-52085-2
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 790 g

Systems biology is a vigorous and expanding discipline, in many ways a successor to genomics and perhaps unprecedented in its combination of biology with a great many other sciences, from physics to ecology, from mathematics to medicine, and from philosophy to chemistry. Studying the philosophical foundations of systems biology may resolve a longer standing issue, i.e., the extent to which Biology is entitled to its own scientific foundations rather than being dominated by existing philosophies.

Zielgruppe

Computational biologists, Molecular biologists, Cellular biologists, Systems biologists, Bioinformaticians, Philosophers of Science, Philosophers of Biology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boogerd, Fred

Bruggeman, Frank J.

Hofmeyr, Jan-Hendrik S.

Westerhoff, H.V.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Molekularbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Proteinforschung
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Humangenetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Towards philosophical foundations of Systems Biology: introduction

Chapter 2: The methodologies of systems biology

Chapter 3: Methodology is Philosophy

Chapter 4: How can we understand metabolism?

Chapter 5: On building reliable pictures with unreliable data: An evolutionary and developmental coda for the new systems biology

Chapter 6: Mechanism and mechanical explanation in systems biology

Chapter 7: Theories, models, and equations in systems biology

Chapter 8: All models are wrong:. some more than others

Chapter 9: Data without models merging with models without data

Chapter 10: The biochemical factory that autonomously fabricates itself: A systems biological view of the living cell

Chapter 11: A systemic approach to the origin of biological organization

Chapter 12: Biological mechanisms: organized to maintain autonomy

Chapter 13: The disappearance of function from 'self-organizing systems'

Chapter 14: Afterthoughts as foundations for systems biology