(1) Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA;(2) Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Abstract:
Background
New techniques for determining relationships between biomolecules of all types – genes, proteins, noncoding DNA, metabolites and small molecules – are now making a substantial contribution to the widely discussed explosion of facts about the cell. The data generated by these techniques promote a picture of the cell as an interconnected information network, with molecular components linked with one another in topologies that can encode and represent many features of cellular function. This networked view of biology brings the potential for systematic understanding of living molecular systems.
