Systems Biology

Systems biology is the emerging, interdisciplinary field of biological systems analysis. Systems biology attempts to understand the complexity observed in living organisms through the study of of interactions between the various parts of biological systems. Systems biology as a field of research also attempts to elucidate the emergent properties - those that are not obvious from a catalogue of biological parts - of biological systems. Towards this end, systems biology investigates the interactions between different systems of biological information at all levels of resolution, from molecules of DNA in the genome, through RNA, proteins, complexes, pathways and signalling networks, cells, tissues, and entire organisms. Reasoning over information at all these levels, meaningfully integrating such datasets, and uncovering the properties of these systems is the main challenge of systems biology.

QFAB supports systems biology research across the spectrum of interdisciplinary techniques being developed in this dynamic field. QFAB researchers work with biologists to understand the nature of of the biological systems under investigation in specific research projects, and develop or customise approaches for understanding these systems, or infering the properties of such systems from high-through put data sets.