Section: Application Domains

From structural analysis to systems biology

This large domain aims at extracting biological knowledge from Xome studies, where X varies from genes to metabolites. Biological sequences and networks of components in the cell must verify a number of important constraints with respect to stable and accessible conformations, functional mechanisms and dynamics. These constraints result in the conservation during evolution of "patterns" and types of interactions to be deciphered. Many advanced researches consider now the study of life as a system, abstracted in a network of components governed by interaction laws, mostly qualitative or quantitative for reduced systems.