Systems Biology Discussion Group
High-throughput biotechnology and information technology have generated an overwhelming amount of information about genes, proteins, and other cellular entities. This remarkable success story has also created a pressing need to make sense of a plethora of biological facts. Systems biology is an attempt to infer networks of interactions of cellular components from such biological data, and then to build accurate predictive models of them.
The Systems Biology Discussion Group promotes interaction between biologists and computational scientists so that researchers are armed with both the experimental tools of modern molecular biology and the analytical methodologies of math, physics, computer science, and engineering. Meetings focus on efforts to model basic mechanisms of cellular function and on practical applications for systems biology approaches.