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Article: Integrate "Integrative" Biology?(integrative biology and systems biology)
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- Genomics and Proteomics
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- January 1, 2005
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Ken Rubenstein, PhD
Systems biology, which has actually been in existence since the origination of the general systems theory in the 1920s, underwent a dramatic renaissance in 2000, when Leroy Hood left his tenured post at the University of Washington to found the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), Seattle, and when Boston venture capitalists funded a new start-up called Beyond Genomics, Waltham, Mass.
In defining systems biology, the ISB website says, "Unlike traditional biology that examines single genes or proteins in isolation, systems biology simultaneously studies the complex interaction of many levels of biological information to understand how ...