Perspectives on the Sixth International Conference on Systems Biology [News]

The author presents profiles of the works of Kwang-Hyun Cho, Jim Collins and Hiroki Ueda. The work of Cho and his group is applied explicitly to biology and medicine. The group is involved in collaborations with "wet lab" biologists, applying in silico techniques including signal transduction pathway analysis and the "reverse engineering" of regulatory networks to specific, practical biological problems. Jim Collins\´s research group is involved in integrating systems biology with synthetic biology; in engineering synthetic gene networks out of well characterized biological components; and in reverse engineering models of gene networks. Ueda\´s research applies systems and network biology to one of the most intricate and complex biological mechanisms, the circadian clock