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Strategies of Explanatory Abstraction in Molecular Systems Biology.

I consider three explanatory strategies from recent systems biology that are driven by mathematics as much as mechanistic detail. Analysis of differential equations drives the first strategy; topological analysis of network motifs drives the second; mathematical theorems from control engineering dri...

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Published in:Philosophy of Science Vol. 85; no. 5; pp. 955 - 969
Main Author: Jones, Nicholaos
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press Dec2018
Subjects:
Systems biology
Escherichia coli
Chemotaxis
Biochemistry
Automatic control systems
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