Systems biology is a relatively new biological study field that focuses on the
systematic study of complex interactions in biological systems, thus using a new
perspective (integration instead of reduction) to study them. Particularly from
year 2000 onwards, the term is used widely in the biosciences, and in a variety
of contexts. Systems biology is the study of the interconnected aspect of
molecular, cellular, tissue, whole animal and ecological processes, and
comprises mathematical and mechanistic studies of dynamical, mesoscopic, open,
spatiotemporally defined, nonlinear, complex systems that are far from
thermodynamic equilibrium.Containing a unique selection of new and updated,
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