Systems biology and clinical practice in respiratory medicine

What is it about?

Approaches borrowed from systems biology as well as complexity science are increasingly used to study respiratory and critical illnesses. We discuss the origins of complexity in the lung, and provide examples of how these approaches have provided new insights into disease and discuss their current and future practical application.

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Why is it important?

Now more than ever, advances in technology mean that we are better able to collect a wide, more detailed range of data and how they vary over time. Systems biology and complexity science provide us with the tools to make sense of these data.