Systems Biology
Biology has seen an explosion in the amount of data that is being produced. The solving of genome sequences has generated still more data through the discovery of gene products and metabolites, and these studies have led to the discovery of new molecular mechanisms, pathways and interactions. Disappointingly, despite all this new information from newly termed 'omes such as proteomes, metabalomes, interactomes etc. it has proved difficult to link the behaviour of the biological system with that of the newly discovered molecular mechanism. This is important to not only understanding the biology of the system, but also to disease, and since a disease phenotype is caused by many interacting parts, discovering drug targets, better diagnostics, and understanding the impact that environment factors have on the disease means that we need to be studying entire biological systems. Systems Biology has been described as the holistic study of biological systems, and the Peter Wills Bioinformatics Centre is interested in applying computational methods on a systems biology level.
Staff
 Research OfficerDr Gerard Hammond |
 Research OfficerDr Warren Kaplan |
