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System Biology Philosophical Foundation
Publisher description: 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. St...
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Amsterdam ; Boston
Elsevier
2007
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Table of 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.