Scope
According to Kitano ‘Systems biology is an emergent field that aims at system-level understanding of biological systems.’ The word ‘systems’ appears three times in the definition.
Most biologists, particularly those working at the physiological or ecological level, think they have always aimed for ‘system-level understanding’. What is new about Systems Biologysensu Kitano? It seeks to bring together understanding of structure (in terms of gene and biochemical networks), system dynamics (involving predictive modelling), system control methods and system design. But crop scientists, ecologists, developmental biologists and the like who use tools such as ‘omics’, large-scale data-capture, informatics and modelling will say that they are also concerned with such ‘systems’ properties.
So what is the relationship between Systems Biology and The Biology of Systems? This meeting, which brings together researchers in plant systems biology with plant scientists who work on physiological, developmental, ecological and agronomic systems, seeks to provide answers to this question.
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Organising committee
Sid Thomas, IGER, UK
Helen Ougham, IGER, UK
Alan Gay, IGER, UK
Helen Pinfield-Wells, New Phytologist, Lancaster, UK