Maps, books and other metaphors for systems biology |
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Authors: | Ouzounis Christos Mazière Pierre |
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Institution: | Computational Genomics Group, The European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL Cambridge Outstation, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. ouzounis@ebi.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | We briefly review the use of metaphors in science and progressively focus on fields from biology and molecular biology to genomics and bioinformatics. We discuss how metaphors are both a tool for scientific exploration and a medium for public communication of complex subjects, by various short examples. Finally, we propose a metaphor for systems biology that provides an illuminating perspective for the ambitious goals of this field and delimits its current agenda. |
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Keywords: | Systems biology Computational biology Molecular biology Metaphors |
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