Systems Biology and New Sequencing Technologies

Barcelona, Spain (June 16-18, 2010)

Parallel advances in two insofar relatively disconnected areas of science are boosting our understanding of biological systems.

On the one hand, systems biology, with its promise of integration of high-throughput biological data and its emphasis on quantitative modeling and simulation, is providing a global perspective of biological systems that goes beyond the classical reductionist approach that has dominated the field until recently. On the other hand, new sequencing technologies are developing at an enormous speed, and provide whole genome data that revealed previously unexplored genomic features such as functional intergenic regions, copy number variations and other genomic differences between members of the same species.

Více: http://www.functionalgenomics.org.uk/sections/activitites/2010/Guigo/i