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Systems biology is an emergent discipline, yet can be rooted back almost a century when pioneering thoughts on system-oriented views were discussed. System-level understanding of life has consistently been a subject of the broad scientific community. With the progress of various molecular biology and genomics research, combined with advances in control theory, software, and computer science, we are now able to tackle this problem with renewed perspectives and powerful techniques. One of the significant questions is what is underlying principles of living systems. This paper argues that ”robustness” is one of the fundamental properties of evolved biological systems and there are certain principles that govern biological systems at the system-level. Such a principle also provides us with insight into diseases and possible countermeasures.
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Kitano, H. Scientific and technical challenges for systems biology. In: Alberghina, L., Westerhoff, H. (eds) Systems Biology. Topics in Current Genetics, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/b137124
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