TY - GEN AU - Julio Vera AU - Alberto Marin-Sanguino AU - Rui Alves TI - Foundations of Theoretical Approaches in Systems Biology SN - 978-2-88945-683-3 PY - 2019/// PB - Frontiers Media SA KW - Biotechnology KW - Synthetic Biology KW - mathematical modeling KW - Biochemical systems theory KW - Systems Medicine KW - computational modeling KW - Systems Biology KW - biological networks N1 - Open Access N2 - If biology in the 20th century was characterized by an explosion of new technologies and experimental methods, that of the 21st has seen an equally exuberant proliferation of mathematical and computational methods that attempt to systematize and explain the abundance of available data. As we live through the consolidation of a new paradigm where experimental data goes hand in hand with computational analysis, we contemplate the challenge of fusing these two aspects of the new biology into a consistent theoretical framework. Whether systems biology will survive as a field or be washed away by the tides of future fads will ultimately depend on its success to achieve this type of synthesis. The famous quote attributed to Kurt Lewin comes to mind: "there is nothing more practical than a good theory". This book presents a wide assortment of articles on systems biology in an attempt to capture the variety of current methods in systems biology and show how they can help to find answers to the challenges of modern biology UR - https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/3688/foundations-of-theoretical-approaches-in-systems-biology UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/47958 ER -