It's the System, Stupid:

[Randy]

How Systems Biology Is Transforming Health, Disease, and the Life
Sciences
An article by Bob Carlson published in Biotechnology Healthcare Spring
2010.

The article is a bit of a puff piece that promotes systems biology as
it relates to healthcare. Although there's nothing too surprising in
the article, there were a few fun quotes.

“Most of the low-hanging fruit has been plucked, says Neyarapally. We
now have to delve further to identify and understand the molecules
that maybe aren't so neatly and clearly correlated with the disease
that we're trying to understand but are highly connected 'key nodes'
in a network that enables the disease to occur.”

Lee Hood of the ISB “nixes the idea of a virtual patient, at least in
the foreseeable future, because so much of cell biology is still a
mystery.”

The article mentions “networks” at least a couple of times, which is
an interesting coincidence because I just finished reading an
introduction to network theory called “Linked”. See my review here:
http://groups.google.com/group/bebobio/web/linked---albert-laszlo-barabasi

Here's a link to the original article:
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/medimedia/bh_2010spring/index.php?startid=12#/16