approached by incorporating many diverse perspectives and disciplines, e.g. natural, physical and sciences, that complement one another to unravel the complexity of biology.
Keita Ito, Vice Director AO Research Davos
Systems biology is an academic field that seeks to integrate high-throughput biological studies to understand how biological systems function. By studying the relationships and interactions between various parts of a biological system (e.g. metabolic pathways, organelles, cells, physiological systems, organisms etc.) it is hoped that eventually an understandable model of the whole system can be developed.
Wikipedia
Integrative biology has the same meaning as systemic biology. By the way, it is a new wording, more fashionable, for physiology...
Jean-Pierre Boissel, Lyon France
“Systems biology” is quickly emerging as the popular term describing many exciting scientific activities of postgenomic biology.
Allen W. Cowley, Jr. Editor-in-Chief, Physiological Genomics
Systems biology concerns the study of the connectivity between the components of living matter and how the connectivity between these components can lead to emergent properties i.e. the properties of a system that are not derivable by summing the properties of its component parts.
EMBL
Systems biology involves the application of experimental, theoretical, and computational techniques to the study of biological organisms at all levels, from the molecular, through the cellular, to the organ, organism, and populations. Its aim is to understand biological processes as integrated systems instead of as isolated parts.
NIH Systems Biology Workshop 2002
Системная биология включает в себя применение экспериментальных, теоретических и компьютерных методов изучения биологических организмов на всех уровнях от молекулярного, через клеточный, тканевой, до органного, организменного и популяционного. Цель – понимание биологических процессов как интегративных систем взамен изолированных частей.
NIH Systems Biology Workshop 2002