Foteinou P T, Yang E, Androulakis I P
Biomedical Engineering Department, Rutgers University, 599 Taylor Road Piscataway, NJ 08854.
Comput Chem Eng. 2009 Dec 10;33(12):2028-2041. doi: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2009.06.027.
Biological systems can be modeled as networks of interacting components across multiple scales. A central problem in computational systems biology is to identify those critical components and the rules that define their interactions and give rise to the emergent behavior of a host response. In this paper we will discuss two fundamental problems related to the construction of transcription factor networks and the identification of networks of functional modules describing disease progression. We focus on inflammation as a key physiological response of clinical and translational importance.
生物系统可以被建模为跨多个尺度相互作用的组件网络。计算系统生物学中的一个核心问题是识别那些关键组件以及定义它们相互作用并引发宿主反应的涌现行为的规则。在本文中,我们将讨论与转录因子网络构建以及描述疾病进展的功能模块网络识别相关的两个基本问题。我们将重点关注炎症这一具有临床和转化重要性的关键生理反应。