Systems Bioinformatics: How Networks and Systems Biology Boost Precision/Personalized Medicine

Dear Colleagues,

Systems bioinformatics combine network-based bioinformatics approaches with systems biology to provide answers to problems that deal with multilevel and multiscale data handling and integration, discovery of patterns of biomarkers, analysis of systemic effects, revealing connected communities of molecular pathways related to a disease, analysis of synergistic effects on a molecular level, bridging the gap between molecular and phenotypic findings, monitoring of network differentiation among biological states, and many others. This is a framework in which systems approaches are applied to -omics data, setting the level of resolution and studying the emerging properties of the system as a whole rather than the sum of the properties derived from the system’s individual components. Systems bioinformatics is a modern view of what computer science, physics, mathematics, and other sciences can do for biology and medicine, generating new knowledge, methods, tools as well as more demanding questions for precision and personalized medicine.

Therefore, authors are invited to submit original research and review articles which address the progress and current standing of network-based and other systems bioinformatics approaches for precision/personalized medicine.

Prof. George M. Spyrou
Guest Editor

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