title: Taking a developmental perspective on systems biology.
abstract: Developmental biologists understand how different cells contribute to organ function and how cellular components work together to produce a phenotype. These insights need to be more widely applied to systems biology. Another challenge is to incorporate real-time imaging and develop computational approaches to model biological phenomena in four dimensions.
authors.affiliation: Biology Department and IGSP Center for Systems Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. philip.benfey@duke.edu
authors.forename: Philip N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Benfey
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002477:Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D015509:Developmental Biology; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D010641:Phenotype; D049490:Systems Biology