The Logic of Life
- Måns Ehrenberg, (Chair),
- Erik Aurell,
- Johan Elf,
- Rickard Sandberg, and
- Jesper Tegnér
- The ICSB 2002 Scientific Organizing Committee
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The Human Genome Project and recent advances in proteomics and DNA microarray technology highlight the need for systems-level integration of experiments and theory in order to understand the logic of life. This is the ambitious goal for systems biology, the quantitative study of biological processes as integrated systems rather than as isolated parts.
This issue of Genome Research comprises a selection of articles (see References) presented at the 3rd International Conference on Systems Biology 2002 (ICSB2002), held at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, December, 13 to 15, 2002. The organizers of ICSB2002 were Karolinska Institute, Uppsala University, Swedish Institute of Computer Science and Linköping University. The first ICSB conference was held in Tokyo, Japan, in November 2000, on the initiative of Hiroaki Kitano, who has played a major role in the launching of the field and who chairs the program committee. ICSB2002 lived up to the high expectations from the previous meetings, including the second meeting, which was held at Caltech in November 2001 and organized by Mel Simon, John Doyle, and Hiroaki Kitano with a scientific program comprising keynote speakers, other talks, and a large poster session.
ICSB2002 had a strong focus on combining quantitative experimental analysis with mathematical models to …
