A Review on System Biology and the Research of Biological Networks
The conception of System Biology is introduced, series of qualities and characteristics about biological complex networks in majority are analyzed, and a number of start points of the research on biological systems theoretically from now on are proposed.
Abstract
This paper briefly introduced the conception of System Biology and its features, contents and methods about the studies of System Biology. Based on this, biological systems are abstracted into complex networks taking advantage of the complex network theory, and through the research on complex networks of organism, we can acquire kinds of new understanding and comprehension about the structure and function of organism. In current stage, the measure mostly be taken is, combined with the four aspects of network attributes that are the distribution of degree, small-world effect, the property of clustering and robustness, we analyzed series of qualities and characteristics about biological complex networks in majority, and obtained some universal regulations. Moreover, in the final part of this paper, we proposed a number of start points of the research on biological systems theoretically from now on.