Systems Biology in Biotech & Pharma A Changing Paradigm
Systems Biology (SB) is a suite of technologies and methodologies that resulted, conceptually from the merging of two basic paradigms, reductionism and holism. It represents a combination of reductionist and holistic approaches to the relationships among the elements of a system, with the goal of id...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2012, 2012
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2012 |
| Series: | SpringerBriefs in Pharmaceutical Science & Drug Development
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Systems Biology (SB) is a suite of technologies and methodologies that resulted, conceptually from the merging of two basic paradigms, reductionism and holism. It represents a combination of reductionist and holistic approaches to the relationships among the elements of a system, with the goal of identifying its emergent properties and defining, quantitatively, molecular, cellular, tissue, organ and whole body processes. One manifestation of SB is as a tool for hypothesis generation about a system that is typically too large and complex to understand by simple reasoning |
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| Physical Description: | XVIII, 127 p. 16 illus. in color online resource |
| ISBN: | 9789400728493 |