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Systems Biology: A Brief Overview
Hiroaki Kitano
Argues that biology's next advances will come from treating cells and organisms as systems defined by structure and dynamics, not from cataloguing genes and proteins alone.
Biology · Systems & Synthetic Biology
A topic within Systems & Synthetic Biology, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Biology.
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Hiroaki Kitano
Argues that biology's next advances will come from treating cells and organisms as systems defined by structure and dynamics, not from cataloguing genes and proteins alone.
The Royal Institution
Examines what building an organism from designed components would actually require, and argues the hard limit is our incomplete account of which genes a minimal cell cannot do without.
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