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Systems biology : philosophical foundations / edited by Fred C. Boogerd [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780444520852
  • 0444520856
  • 9780080475271
  • 0080475272
  • 1281003808
  • 9781281003805
  • 9786611003807
  • 6611003800
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Systems biology.DDC classification:
  • 570.1 22
LOC classification:
  • QH331 .S96 2007eb
NLM classification:
  • 2007 K-644
  • QU 26.5
Other classification:
  • 42.10
  • CC 3700
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Towards philosophical foundations of Systems Biology: Introduction -- Research programs of Systems Biology -- 2. The methodologies of Systems Biology -- 3. Methodology is Philosophy -- 4. How can we understand metabolism? -- 5. On Building Reliable Pictures with Unreliable Data: an Evolutionary and Developmental Coda for the New Systems Biology? -- Theory / models -- 6. Mechanism and mechanical explanation in cell biology -- 7. Theories, Models, and Equations in Systems Biology -- 8. All models are wrong ... some more than others -- 9. Data without models merging with models without data -- Organization in biological systems -- 10. The biochemical factory that autonomously fabricates itself: a systems-biological view of the living cell -- 11. A systemic approach to the origin of biological organization -- 12. Organization and biological mechanisms: organized to maintain autonomy -- 13. The disappearance of function from 'self-organizing systems' -- Conclusion -- 14. Afterthoughts as foundations for Systems Biology.
Summary: 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. * Answers the question of what distinguishes the living from the non-living * An in-depth look to a vigorous and expanding discipline, from molecule to system * Explores the region between individual components and the system.
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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. * Answers the question of what distinguishes the living from the non-living * An in-depth look to a vigorous and expanding discipline, from molecule to system * Explores the region between individual components and the system.

Introduction -- 1. Towards philosophical foundations of Systems Biology: Introduction -- Research programs of Systems Biology -- 2. The methodologies of Systems Biology -- 3. Methodology is Philosophy -- 4. How can we understand metabolism? -- 5. On Building Reliable Pictures with Unreliable Data: an Evolutionary and Developmental Coda for the New Systems Biology? -- Theory / models -- 6. Mechanism and mechanical explanation in cell biology -- 7. Theories, Models, and Equations in Systems Biology -- 8. All models are wrong ... some more than others -- 9. Data without models merging with models without data -- Organization in biological systems -- 10. The biochemical factory that autonomously fabricates itself: a systems-biological view of the living cell -- 11. A systemic approach to the origin of biological organization -- 12. Organization and biological mechanisms: organized to maintain autonomy -- 13. The disappearance of function from 'self-organizing systems' -- Conclusion -- 14. Afterthoughts as foundations for Systems Biology.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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