Systems Biomedicine: Concepts and Perspectives

March 2, 2010 · Posted in Books about Genetics and Genomics

Edited to add: Leave a comment to enter a drawing for a free copy of Systems Biomedicine. Contest is open until Friday, 5 March, 11:59 pm PST (GMT –8).

8 March 10:
Congratulations to Shameer Khader and Ciprian Gheorghe! They’ve each won a copy of Systems Biomedicine by HUGO President Edison Liu.

We’ll be holding another contest in April. Keep your eyes on HUGO!

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Have you read HUGO President Prof. Edison Liu’s latest book? Co-authored with Douglas Lauffenburger of MIT, Systems Biomedicine: Concepts and Perspectives examines systems biology and its application to biomedical research.

You can read more about the book at A*STAR Research.

Systems biology, as we now conceive of it, differs in scale and formalism from these earlier quantitative traditions. As any new field, there are many opinions as to the scope of systems biology. In essence, it can be described as a discipline that seeks to quantify and annotate the complexity of biological systems in order to construct algorithmic models capable of predicting outcomes from component inputs. Systems biomedicine is an extension of these strategies to the study of biomedical problems. This demarcation is relevant given the challenges of the complexity of the human organism and the human impact of the results of these investigations.

What other books about genetics or genomics would you recommend?

Comments

14 Responses to “Systems Biomedicine: Concepts and Perspectives”

Blair Anderson on March 4th, 2010 12:11 am

Very interested in the book, and would love another chance to try and win it
Khader Shameer on March 4th, 2010 1:59 am

Good to know about this new exciting book on emerging areas in Systems Biology. Topics looks really interesting. Thanks to HUGO for innovative concept to spread the word about the book. I am excited to be part of the chance to win this. Looking forward for the result.
Chris Whelan on March 4th, 2010 3:36 am

The book looks great – I’d love to read it!

For introductory systems biology concepts I really like “An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits” by Uri Alon. Dr. Liu’s book sounds like it would present a great way to extend those concepts to medicine.
Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD on March 4th, 2010 10:12 pm

Thanks very much for your comments!

Systems Biology and Biomedicine is definitely where we’re headed. Glad to know there are people interested in pondering that next step!
Nick Holden on March 4th, 2010 10:50 pm

Sounds like a fascinating book, and this draw is an interesting attempt to promote it. Hope it helps to spread the word about HUGO.
Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD on March 4th, 2010 10:51 pm

Glad to see there’s so much interest, Nick!
Jill on March 5th, 2010 12:16 am

Sounds interesting!
Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD on March 5th, 2010 12:20 am

Thanks, Jill. It most definitely is!
Dr. Bertalan Mesko on March 5th, 2010 5:24 pm

Very interesting and nice initiative, Hsien!
Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD on March 5th, 2010 10:35 pm

I knew you’d approve, Berci.
Jacob Shiach on March 5th, 2010 11:08 pm

This book looks very interesting. I look forward to reading it.
Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD on March 5th, 2010 11:28 pm

Thanks for participating, Jacob! I hope you will have the chance to read the book whether via us or the library.
nidhan on March 6th, 2010 8:05 pm

very interested to read the book .. i want to move into the systems biology in my post doc .. i think this book would be really helpful..
Pallavi Shukla on March 11th, 2010 2:15 pm

Oh my God. I miss the chance to comment. I was always fascinated by the word “system biology” wanna have book to understand the concepts. Plz accept the comment. though its 11th march.