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Systems Biology & Networks Analysis

With “systems biology,” DCMB scientists seek to understand the larger picture—be it at the level of the organism, tissue, or cell—by putting its pieces together.

Combining experimental biology with computational modeling, simulation and bioinformatics, systems biology aims to understand how a biological system (cells, organs, an organism, or a population of organisms) functions, based on our understanding of its components and the understanding that “the whole is larger than the sum of the parts.” As a component of systems biology, network analysis applies theories that have been developed in the study of computer networks, social networks and physical networks to biological systems, to generate predictive models of the behavior of biological systems.

This area of research overlaps with Multi-omics.

The following DCMB and CCMB faculty members work in this area. 
Associated Faculty
Anne Draelos Ann Draelos, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
Guan-Yuanfan.jpg Yuanfang Guan, PhD
Associate Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
headshot of Alla Karnovsky Alla Karnovsky, PhD
Program Director, Bioinformatics Master's Program
Associate Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
Rajapakse-Indika.jpeg Indika Rajapakse, PhD
Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
Professor of Mathematics
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
headshot of Arvind Rao Arvind Rao, PhD
Associate Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Wang-Meng.jpeg Meng Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics