title: The edges of understanding.
abstract: A culture's icons are a window onto its soul. Few would disagree that, in the culture of molecular biology that dominated much of the life sciences for the last third of the 20th century, the dominant icon was the double helix. In the present, post-modern, 'systems biology' era, however, it is, arguably, the hairball.
authors.affiliation: Center for Complex Biological Systems, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. adlander@uci.edu
authors.forename: Arthur D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Lander
mesh_terms: D032882:Comprehension; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D049490:Systems Biology / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*
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