Bioinformatics and The Virtual Cell (Bioinformatik und die Virtuelle Zelle)

Abstract

Summary Over the last decade, the areas of bioinformatics and genomics have identified, catalogued and characterised, at the molecular level, the components that make up the complex system of a cell. The next step is to describe how the many components interact to create the complex behaviour that underlies development and disease. The following article is to describe some of the research areas and challenges involved.